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Quality and Incentives: Value-Based
Purchasing, Pay for Performance and
Transparency
Tom Williams
Executive Director
Integrated Healthcare Association
The Quality Colloquium
August 20, 2008
National Leadership
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HHS Secretary Leavitt inspired
Executive Order 13410
Four cornerstone goals
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Interoperable Health IT
Transparency of Quality Measurements
Transparency of Pricing Information
Promoting Quality & Efficiency of Care
Ultimate Goal: “A Change in Culture”
Source: The New Yorker, March 17, 2008
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IHA Sponsored California Pay for
Performance (P4P) Program
Health Plans:
• Aetna
• Blue Cross
• Blue Shield
• Western Health Advantage
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CIGNA
Health Net of CA
Kaiser*
Pacificare/United
Medical Group and IPAs:
• 230 groups
• 35,000 physicians
12 million HMO commercial enrollees
* Kaiser participates in the public reporting only
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California Pay for Performance:
Summary of Performance Results
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Clinical: continued modest improvement on most measures
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5.1 to 12.4 percentage point increases since inception of
measure
Patient experience: scores remain stable but show no
improvement
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IT-Enabled Systemness: most IT measures are improving
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Almost two-thirds of physician groups demonstrated
some IT capability
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Almost one-third of physician groups demonstrated
robust care management processes
Continued performance improvements but
“breakthrough” point not achieved yet.
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California Pay for Performance:
Regional Variability in Quality
Lesson
• Wide variation across
regions exists;
contributes to overall
“mediocre” statewide
performance
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Big gains possible
with focused
attention on certain
regions
P4P Response
• Pay for and recognize
improvement (20% of
payment for 2007)
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More fundamental
change in calculus of
payment for
improvement for
2008/09
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California Pay for Performance:
Clinical Performance Variation
90
Top Performing Groups
85
Inland Empire
Los Angeles
Central Coast
Central Valley
San Diego
Orange County
Bay Area
Sacramento/North
Statewide
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MY 2006 Results by Region
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California Pay for Performance:
A Tale of Two Regions
Inland Empire
Bay Area
PCPs/100K Pop.
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116
% Pop. Medi-Cal
17%
12%
% Hispanic
43%
21%
Per Capita Income
$ 21,733
$ 39,048
California Pay for Performance:
A Tale of Two Regions
P4P Performance Score
Clinical Performance
90
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All Groups
70
Top Performing
Groups
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60
Inland Empire
Bay Area
Are Quality Variations Correlated with
Physician Reimbursement Disparities?
The data and subjective experience suggest:
Physicians in geographies with low
socioeconomics receive disproportionately
lower reimbursement across their practice,
resulting in diminished physician and
organizational capacity, reducing both
access and quality of healthcare, even in a
uniformly, well-insured population.
P4P Quality Payment Incentives
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Fundamental reimbursement disparities
appear to be the main culprit; however P4P
should at a minimum not increase
reimbursement disparities
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Payment for absolute and relative performance
should be balanced with payment for
improvement
Paying for Improvement
Survey Response: What % of total bonus payments by health plans
should be allocated to improvement vs. relative performance?
(n=200, IHA Stakeholders meeting, 10/4/07)
Paying for Performance & Improvement
Earning Quality Points Example
Measure: Pneumococcal Vaccination
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Benchmark
Attainment Threshold
Hospital I
Attainment Range
Score
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.21
Score
baseline
.70
performance
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Hospital I Earns: 6 points for attainment
7 points for improvement
Hospital I Score: maximum of attainment or improvement
= 7 points on this measure
Excerpt from CMS Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Listening Session #2, April 12, 2007
Transparency – Public Reporting
www.opa.ca.gov
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Transparency – Public Reporting
California General Public Survey, conducted by
Harris Interactive (12/07)
Saw Rating Information
Based on these ratings,
considered a change
Based on these ratings,
actually made a change
Hospitals
Health
Plans
Physicians
23%
26%
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1%
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Transparency – Quality Improvement
Rates for Hip Revisions
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Total hip revision rates (2006):
− National average: 18%
− Kaiser Permanente: 12.8%
− Sweden: 7%
Does this reflect more aggressive treatment, or
less effective care?
Slide attributed to Thomas Barber, MD, Permanente Medical Group, presented at the CAHP conference,
October 2006.
Transparency – Quality Improvement
Countries with National Joint Replacement
Registries
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1975: Sweden- Knees
1975: Sweden-Hips
1980: Finland
1987: Norway
1995: Denmark
1997: Germany
1999: New Zealand, Australia
2001: Canada, Romania
2003: England, Wales, Slovakia
2004: Switzerland
Transparency – Quality Improvement
Why doesn’t the U.S. have
mandatory device registries?
Cost and Quality
Healthcare as Percentage of GDP
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60%+ of NME passes through public sector
budgets (CMS, public employees, tax
breaks, etc.)
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Healthcare at 16.3% of GDP (2007)
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Therefore, about 10% of GDP is healthcare
spend passing through public sector
budgets (.6 x 16.3% = 9.8%)
Cost and Quality
Healthcare as Percentage of GDP
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Total tax revenues in U.S. (federal, state,
local) equals about 28% of GDP
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So, healthcare uses about 1/3 of public
sector budgets (.098/28% = 35%) and
growing!
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Healthcare at 20% of GDP = 43% of public
sector budgets
Cost and Quality
Example: Michigan “Checklist”:
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Over 18 months, reduced infections in ICU
by 66%
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Estimated 1,500 lives saved
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Estimated $100 million saved
California Pay for Performance
For more information:
www.iha.org
(510) 208-1740
Pay for Performance has been supported by major grants from
the California Health Care Foundation
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