POINT OF VIEW Value-Based Care Centers
BY STEVEN LANDGARTEN, M.D.
Published: May 30, 2009
Evidence-based medicine and public reporting of results have been strongly encouraged by the federal government, which is the largest purchaser of medical care in the United States. In recent years, the government has moved from simply paying for care to providing financial incentives to encourage health care providers to collect and report data for a standard set of quality measures. Today, consumers can visit a government Web site (hospitalcompare.hhs.gov) to view a hospital’s performance in providing recommended care to patients.
A new demonstration project from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) takes this initiative one step further by providing financial incentives to qualifying Medicare patients who select a health care provider based on quality and price.
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