Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
As a health economist who likes to think about the world in a quantitative manner, I do whatever I can to measure quality in a numeric manner. Thus, if I was visiting a primary care physician (PCP) and needed some specialist care, I would want the PCP to refer me to the specialist with the best quality ratings.
p3care
OCTOBER 30, 2020
For instance, CMS asks physicians to focus on the quality of care rather than the volume of patients. However, with the pandemic, there was no choice left other than catering to the volume of patients while being careful and value-driven to every extent possible. Quality Category: Weighs 50%.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 17, 2021
For years, Medicare and other payers have used quality measures to evaluate the quality of care patients receive at various types of providers settings (e.g., For some payers, higher quality scores/higher star ratings lead to direct increases in reimbursement through a value-based purchasing arrangement.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
In the Bierman article, they aim to do this by answering the following questions as part of their research agenda: How can care become more patient centered for patients with MCC? This includes better approaches to measuring quality, better health IT, and integrating social, behavioral and economic factors into the care plan.
Health Blawg
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
We still don’t have universally accepted measures, quality measures are typically process measures, not outcome measures, and we don’t have the tools to identify what is “quality” – or consensus on how to measure quality. “Burn the boats.”
Health Blawg
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
We still don’t have universally accepted measures, quality measures are typically process measures, not outcome measures, and we don’t have the tools to identify what is “quality” – or consensus on how to measure quality. “Burn the boats.”
Health Blawg
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
We still don’t have universally accepted measures, quality measures are typically process measures, not outcome measures, and we don’t have the tools to identify what is “quality” – or consensus on how to measure quality. “Burn the boats.”
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