Quality and the physician value-based payment program

Radiol Manage. 2014 Jan-Feb;36(1):14-20; quiz 22-3.

Abstract

In the last decade, there has been a rapidly growing emphasis and imperative for healthcare quality improvement. With the vast number of stakeholders involved, it is reaching a pinnacle of activity and requirements. The federal government has been developing and implementing quality initiatives across the healthcare system spectrum. This article looks at three major programs: the Hospital Value-based Purchasing/Inpatient Quality Reporting Program, Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting, and the Physician Quality Reporting System /Physician Value-based Payment Modifier. Quality measurement in healthcare will continue to grow and evolve. Current and upcoming programs will expand, change, and likely disappear or morph into variations of themselves.

MeSH terms

  • Education, Continuing
  • Humans
  • Physician Incentive Plans / organization & administration*
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care*
  • Radiology Department, Hospital
  • United States
  • Value-Based Purchasing*