Alternative Approaches to Measuring Physician Resource Use

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Title
Alternative Approaches to Measuring Physician Resource Use
Project Officer(s)
Craig Caplan
Start Date
End Date
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Task Order (RADSTO)
Description
CMS and others in the policy community have been increasingly interested in moving to a value based purchasing (VBP) system for physicians under original fee-for-service Medicare. Under VBP, physicians' payments would depend on the "value" of services provided. Physicians who routinely use relatively few resources while maintaining adequate quality services would receive larger payment updates than physicians providing similar or lower quality services with more resources. CMS has focused on the use of commercially developed episode groupers to measure resource use, but few studies have examined feasible options in Medicare. The purpose of this task order is to develop and analyze alternative approaches to measuring physician resource use.
Funding
$1,499,979.00
Principal Investigator(s)
David Knutson
Project Number
HHSM-500-2005-00027I/0004
Status
The contractor is conducting analyses of episode-based and per capita approaches. The project's second interim report that summarizes work to date is near completion. A no-cost contract modification is in the process of being drafted that would extend the end date until April 28, 2012.
Awardee Address

450 Gateway Building, 200 Oak Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Estados Unidos

Awardee Name
University of Minnesota