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Physicians working with value-based payment models are being graded on an average of 57 different quality measures a year, according to a new study.
The quality measures were included in commercial and government insurance plans, with Medicare leading the number, with 15.04 quality measures per contract in 2022, according to “Value-Based Contracting in Clinical Care,” a research letter published this month in JAMA Health Forum.
Are the quality measures a burden on doctors?
“Value-based contracting is intended to incentivize care improvement, but it is unlikely a clinician or practice can reasonably optimize against 50 or more measures at a time,” the study said. “Increased use of such levers may also carry unintended consequences. Clarity and salience are crucial to changing behavior, and the burden of extraneous information and processes has been increasingly associated with adverse outcomes, such as physician burnout.”