Pay-for-Performance Cost Physician Practices $1,000 to $11,100 per Physician to Implement

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Physician practices paid between $1,000 and $11,100 per physician to implement four pay-for-performance quality and outcome reporting initiatives—Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI); Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP); and Bridges To Excellence (BTE) as implemented by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina; and Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC). After the programs launched, the annual cost ranged from about $100 to $4,300 per physician. These are findings of a study “Cost to Primary Care Practices of Responding to Payer Requests for Quality and . . .