Association Between the Physician Quality Score in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System and Hospital Performance in Hospital Compare in the First Year of the Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The scientific validity of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) quality score as a measure of hospital-level patient outcomes is unknown.

Objective

To examine whether better physician performance on the MIPS quality score is associated with better hospital outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study of 38 830 physicians used data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Compare (2017) merged with CMS Hospital Compare data. Data analysis was conducted from September to November 2020.

Main outcomes and measures

Linear regression was used to examine the association between physician MIPS quality scores aggregated at the hospital level and hospitalwide measures of (1) postoperative complicati

SUBMITTER: Glance LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8335582 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature