Dr. Tim Williams Discusses the Use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the United Kingdom: May 8th
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Listen Now Healthcare payment models have been increasingly evolving to include quality performance in determining reimbursement. For example, the Medicare program, including Medicare Advantage, is today littered with quality performance measurement. Measuring quality in healthcare is, however, not as simple or straight forward as frequently assumed. Among other challenges, measures developed to date overwhelming measure healthcare process, not outcomes. Providers typically report on measure sets unique to each payer causing them undue collection and reporting burden, which measure is attributed to which provider can be or is an inexact and under pay for performance agreements comparatively higher quality scores does not always translate to comparatively greater financial reward. Because of these problems and related others, Patient Reported Outcome Measures (or PROMs) are increasingly seen as a solution. They reduce provider reporting burden, they are largely outcome based, are more responsive to patient care goals, help to better engage or activate the patient, PROMs data can be, or is, reported real time and can enable more efficient and more timely care delivery.
Dr. Tim Williams Discusses the Use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the United Kingdom: May 8th
Dr. Tim Williams Discusses the Use of Patient…
Dr. Tim Williams Discusses the Use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the United Kingdom: May 8th
Listen Now Healthcare payment models have been increasingly evolving to include quality performance in determining reimbursement. For example, the Medicare program, including Medicare Advantage, is today littered with quality performance measurement. Measuring quality in healthcare is, however, not as simple or straight forward as frequently assumed. Among other challenges, measures developed to date overwhelming measure healthcare process, not outcomes. Providers typically report on measure sets unique to each payer causing them undue collection and reporting burden, which measure is attributed to which provider can be or is an inexact and under pay for performance agreements comparatively higher quality scores does not always translate to comparatively greater financial reward. Because of these problems and related others, Patient Reported Outcome Measures (or PROMs) are increasingly seen as a solution. They reduce provider reporting burden, they are largely outcome based, are more responsive to patient care goals, help to better engage or activate the patient, PROMs data can be, or is, reported real time and can enable more efficient and more timely care delivery.