Study Finds Major Flaws in Value-Based Care

Patient Well-Being Foundation – April 23, 2018

The mission to transform the United States health care system from volume to value, makes sense to most of us. As with any complex mission, it is challenging to determine how to measure performance of the mission.  How do we measure value-based care (VBC)? How do we measure VBC performance in a cost-effective way? With thousands of possible elements that could be measured, it will take many years and iterations to get this right.

A recent study demonstrated major flaws in how Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) measures value in primary care. The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 63% of the performance measures were either not valid or lack evidence to support their validity. See more.