Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

Quality measures (QMs) are performance tools for health plans and clinicians that are intended to assess and influence the quality and quantity of delivered health care. When QMs are thoughtfully ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of ...

It costs physician practices in the U.S. billions of dollars and hundreds of hours each year to report quality measures. But the American Medical Group Association says that process could be ...

The National Committee of Quality Assurance has issued a series of recommendations urging President Joe Biden to take steps to evolve the current quality measurement ecosystem. "Though NCQA is a ...

Quality measurement has been around for nearly 2 decades and in that time measures have evolved and also proliferated to the point of placing considerable burden on physicians and health systems. New ...

There's been a "striking" rise in the number of quality measures that are publicly reported, "but no standards on how accurate or inaccurate a measure needs to be," says Peter Pronovost, MD. Does ...

Quality and performance measurement has become an integral part of the healthcare system. As pharmacists continue to increase their role and exposure as healthcare providers, they are well positioned ...

Among the reforms spelled out in the Affordable Care Act is development of two fundamental activities largely absent in health care — recognizing and rewarding quality care. The first, and possibly ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services set off a flurry of celebration last week when it announced that it had collaborated with the nation’s largest insurance companies to create a set of ...

Recent discussions on pre-K quality center around questions of what we should prioritize in early childhood classrooms — and how we should measure success. A new guide provides a chance “to explore ...