Financial Incentives and Physician Practice Participation in Medicare's Value-Based Reforms.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate whether greater experience and success with performance incentives among physician practices are related to increased participation in Medicare's voluntary value-based payment reforms.

Data sources/study setting

Publicly available data from Medicare's Physician Compare (n = 1,278; January 2012 to November 2013) and nationally representative physician practice data from the National Survey of Physician Organizations 3 (NSPO3; n = 907,538; 2013).

Study design

We used regression analysis to examine practice-level relationships between prior exposure to performance incentives and participation in key Medicare value-based payment reforms: accountable care organization (ACO) programs, the Physician Quality Reporting System ("Physician Compare"), and t

SUBMITTER: Markovitz AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056599 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature