As the value-based care reimbursement environment grows, there is an increasing interest in linking additional physician compensation to the achievement of quality outcomes as measured by certain ...

Dr Slipczuk explores quality metrics, elaborating on ways to improve and align them with the latest cardiology treatment guidelines and payer considerations. Leandro N. Slipczuk, MD, PhD: We’re still ...

A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University set out to calculate how much time and money were devoted to measuring and reporting quality metric data to government and national healthcare ...

Existing diabetes quality measures in the U.S. do not adequately improve the quality of care or outcomes, according to new research published in Health Affairs. The burden of diabetes falls ...

Existing diabetes quality metrics do not currently help patients improve their health and diabetes quality measurement must be improved through the adoption of new measures and modernization, ...

With quality measure saturation in value-based contracts, many primary care physicians feel set up to fail. Research conducted at the Providence health system shows primary care physicians are ...

The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have issued the first-ever performance and quality metrics for the treatment of patients with valvular and structural heart ...

Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace officials are hoping to get more plans into value-based care arrangements as regulators hope to not just build on getting people covered, according to federal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Quality metrics in nephrology contain too many discrepancies between programs, according to Giullian. He said ...

The effort to drive quality-based performance in physicians is now evident in the provision of preventive medicine. The effort to drive quality-based performance in physicians is now evident in the ...

Gastroenterologists and endoscopists are beginning to focus more on quality metrics to provide evidence-based treatment for patients. “From a quality standpoint, measuring outcomes is important ...

It has been 10 years since the Triple Aim was expanded to the Quadruple Aim (QA) to include “clinician well-being in the workplace” as a core health policy goal. This change came in response to the ...