Will Value-Based Purchasing Increase Disparities in Care?
- 26 December 2013
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 369 (26), 2472-2474
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1312654
Abstract
Financial incentives for improving quality and efficiency have gone mainstream in U.S. health care. After years of small-scale pilot projects, demonstrations, and experiments, the Affordable Care Act mandated that Medicare payment to hospitals and physicians must depend, in part, on metrics of quality and efficiency. The first program to do so is Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP), which began affecting Medicare payments to acute care hospitals in October 2012.Keywords
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