Becker's Healthcare April 20, 2018
Although U.S. physicians are evaluated on over 2,500 performance measures, less than 40 percent of these metrics are considered valid, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
To determine the validity of these performance measures, a committee for the American College of Physicians created a five-item checklist to measure importance, appropriateness, strength of clinical evidence, feasibility of implementation and applicability.
The ACP committee analyzed 86 performance measures pertinent to general internal medicine practice. The measures were part of the Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System/Quality Payment Program, which aims to connect physician performance and patient outcomes to reimbursement.
CMS aims to link 90 percent of physician payments under Medicare’s fee-for-service system to performance metrics before 2019....
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