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Value-based payment models: Problematic performance measures

Key Takeaways

  • Measuring patient outcomes in value-based care is complex and often inadequately performed, posing significant challenges.
  • Primary care practitioners show reluctance to join value-based payment models due to difficulties in performance measurement.
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A physician researcher discusses why primary care physicians do not participate in value-based payment models.

Value-based care sounds good in theory, but what is t

he best way to measure patient outcomes? “Measuring that is very tricky to do, and we don't do it that well,” said Ann S. O’Malley, MD, MPH, a researcher for Mathematica. Here she continues explaining some of the problems in measuring performance, as outlined in the study, “Why Primary Care Practitioners Aren’t Joining Value-Based Payment Models: Reasons and Potential Solutions.”

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