Weill Cornell Medicine Reports Findings in Insurance (Impact of a Clinician Incentive Program On Quality Measures Performance In a Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization): Insurance

2023 MAR 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Insurance. According to news reporting originating from New York City, New York, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Financial incentives are often used to encourage and reward clinicians for achieving specific outcomes; however, there is limited data on their effectiveness. This study evaluates the impact of NewYork Quality Care’s Clinician Incentive Program on improving quality measure performance over 4 years.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Weill Cornell Medicine, “Clinicians including primary care physicians and specialists actively opted-in to an incentive program where their quality performance was evaluated and rewarded biannually. Using Medicare Shared Savings Program data extracted for quality measures (2016-2019), this study analyzes quality measure performance between clinicians who opted-in to the program compared to those who did not. Additional analysis was performed comparing primary care clinician and specialist performance. The analysis revealed that clinicians in the incentive program significantly outperform (P < 0.05) clinicians who chose not to join the program in 6 of the 7 quality measures.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “In addition, the program helped facilitate discussions with clinicians more broadly in population health efforts.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Impact of a Clinician Incentive Program On Quality Measures Performance In a Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization. American Journal of Medical Quality, 2023;38(1):29-36. American Journal of Medical Quality can be contacted at: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Two Commerce Sq, 2001 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; American Journal of Medical Quality - ajm.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jessica Han, Weill Cornell Medicine, Accountable Care Org NewYork Presbyterian, NewYork Qual Care, 575 Lexington Ave, 11TH Floor, New York, NY 10022, United States. Additional authors for this research include Anita Jathavedam, Mike Perepelyuk and Paul N. N. Casale.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1097/jmq.0000000000000098. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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