Issues and Challenges in Measuring and Improving the Quality of Health Care: Working Paper 2017-10

Congressional Budget Office

No 53387, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Various stakeholders have made significant efforts to measure and improve health care quality, spurred by landmark reports issued over a decade ago that highlighted serious deficiencies. Most payers now require providers of care to report on aspects of quality as a way to measure their performance and hold them accountable for it. The most common types of initiatives to measure and improve health care quality are public reporting programs and pay-for-performance programs. Under public reporting programs, providers’ performance on quality measures is publicly disseminated to

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Date: 2017-12-11
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