The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Aug. 14 that all physician groups participating in the physician group practice (PGP) demonstration improved the quality of care delivered to patients with congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and diabetes during the second performance year of the demonstration. As a result, the 10 groups earned $16.7 million in incentive payments under the demonstration.
All 10 of the participating physician groups achieved benchmark or target performance on at least 25 out of 27 quality markers for patients with diabetes, coronary artery disease, and congestive heart failure. And five of the physician groups achieved benchmark quality performance on all 27 quality measures.
The groups also improved the quality of care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries on the chronic conditions measured. Physician groups increased their quality scores an average of 9 percentage points across the diabetes measures, 11 percentage points across the heart failure measures, and 5 percentage points across the coronary artery disease measures. Read the press release.
