Study: Value-Based Pay Penalizes Doctors For Services They Don't Control

Value-based purchasing programs often penalize providers for costs that are beyond their control, which may discourage them from seeing the sickest patients, according to a study from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. “ Measuring and Assigning Accountability for Healthcare Spending ,” by Harold D. Miller, finds that one of the biggest problems with the value-based purchasing programs is that they assign all spending on a given patient to the physician or hospital who spent the most time...