National Pay-for-Performance Summit 2015

div>The 2015 National Pay for Performance Summit marks the 10th anniversary of this highly regarded event, providing an opportunity to pause and reflect on the progress made in measuring and paying for performance in healthcare. Along the way, Pay for Performance has become mainstream, with broad support from all sectors of the health care system. It has also evolved from the payment of incentives for improved quality to more robust approaches to paying for value. On the up side, measurement has proliferated beyond all expectations. Physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers are routinely seeing their performance compared to peers, national benchmarks and their own past performance. On the down side, the explosion of measurement has become "too much of a good thing." As a result, attention has shifted to discovering ways to better automate the measurement process and narrow its focus. In addition, despite tremendous progress, our payment system is still predominantly based on fee for service. We're still far from a health care system that consistently delivers best care at lowest cost, and our ability to truly measure and reward outcomes is at an early stage.