US Physician Practices Spend More Than $15.4 Billion Annually To Report Quality Measures

Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Mar;35(3):401-6. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1258.

Abstract

Each year US physician practices in four common specialties spend, on average, 785 hours per physician and more than $15.4 billion dealing with the reporting of quality measures. While much is to be gained from quality measurement, the current system is unnecessarily costly, and greater effort is needed to standardize measures and make them easier to report.

Keywords: Cost of Health Care; Organization and Delivery of Care; Physician Payment; Physicians; Quality Of Care.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Databases, Factual
  • Female
  • Health Care Costs*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Medicine
  • Needs Assessment
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / economics*
  • Quality of Health Care / economics*
  • Research Design / statistics & numerical data*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Surveys and Questionnaires*
  • United States