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Value-based payment models: Problematic performance measures
Author(s)Richard Payerchin
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.
A physician researcher discusses why primary care physicians do not participate in value-based payment models.
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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
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