Measure Healthcare Equity to Improve Quality: Health Affairs Study
August 29, 2018 Healthcare has experienced a meteoric rise in the use of quality measures to determine payment through the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP), the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and other programs. An article in Health Affairs argues that what are missing from these programs are measures and payment incentives tied to one of healthcare quality’s most fundamental drivers—the promotion of health equity and the reduction of healthcare disparities across vulnerable and underserved demographic and socioeconomic groups. Few value-based programs directly…