Yesterday the Harvard Business Review posted an editorial, “U.S. Health Care Reform Can’t Wait for Quality Measures to Be Perfect,” in its online edition. Co-authored by Brian Marcotte, president & CEO of the National Business Group on Health, Annette Guarisco Fildes, president & CEO of the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), Leah Binder, president & CEO of The Leapfrog Group, and myself, the editorial calls for going full-speed-ahead on using validated quality and safety measures for public reporting and payment.
This is a critical issue as the debate continues about whether the current measures of health care quality are adequate to support the movement away from fee-for-service toward value-based payment.
We look forward to continuing the discussion around this important topic with Brian, Leah and others at our upcoming annual conference, Nov. 13-15 in Arlington, VA.
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