Primary Care Selection: A Building Block for Value-Based Health Care

In the context of “attribution gaps” that leave payers uncertain which physicians are to be credited with patient care quality and outcome measures in accountable care organization (ACO) payment models, this Viewpoint discusses the importance of patient selection of primary care providers to patient...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 322; no. 16; pp. 1551 - 1552
Main Authors Heiser, Scott, Conway, Patrick H, Rajkumar, Rahul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 22.10.2019
Subjects
Accountable care organizations
Health care
Payments
Primary care
Quality of care
Value-based care
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Summary:In the context of “attribution gaps” that leave payers uncertain which physicians are to be credited with patient care quality and outcome measures in accountable care organization (ACO) payment models, this Viewpoint discusses the importance of patient selection of primary care providers to patient-centered value-based care, and changes CMS will need to implement to integrate the measure.
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ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2019.14190