Pay-for-Performance and Value-Based Purchasing Services

IPRO offers clients a full range of services to support Pay-For-Performance (P4P) and Value-Based Purchasing Programs.

A report recently published by the Commonwealth Fund¹ reveals that more than half of the nation's state Medicaid programs are using pay-for-performance incentives, and most of the remaining states are expected to do so within the next five years. Full report: http://company.ipro.org/index/p4p-cmwf-report

The IPRO Solution

IPRO's staff can provide the experience and expertise to help maximize the impact of your pay-for-performance initiatives. We offer a full range of pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing program development, implementation and evaluation services, such as:

Performance Measure Development and Selection to ensure that meaningful measures are driving your Pay-for-Performance program
Incentive Program Design that reflects your priorities and encourages provider quality improvement
Provider Education and Outreach to fully engage your providers in the process
Data Collection and Aggregation for complex measures or multipayer projects
Data Analysis to aid program design and evaluation
Data Validation to ensure that reported performance accurately reflects true performance
Provider Technical Assistance in such areas as data submission or quality improvement
Performance Reporting via web and print media, to encourage consumer participation and to foster competitive quality improvement activities
Program Evaluation to assess whether or not your program is achieving its intended results

The IPRO Advantage

Working with IPRO puts the expertise of 350 highly skilled staff members at your disposal, helping you to maximize the impact of pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing initiatives. Our team of health care and information technology professionals:

Serves as the data aggregator for four regional P4P demonstration projects funded by the New York State Department of Health
Provided consultation to state Medicaid agencies regarding their P4P program design and implementation
Audited provider P4P measures for the California Integrated Healthcare Association pay-for-performance initiative
Lent technical expertise and support for a multipayer HEDIS project convened by a business coalition
Created and manage web-based provider report cards for state and private clients

Contact Virginia Hill, RN, MPA, Vice President Managed Care, 516-209-5567 or GHill@ipro.org

¹ Pay-For-Performance in State Medicaid Programs by Kathryn Kuhmerker and Thomas Hartman, April 2007.
HEDIS® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

Since 1983, IPRO has been collaborating with federal, state and local government to improve health outcomes across the continuum of care. IPRO's staff of over 350 health care assessment and quality improvement professionals develop innovative solutions that help our clients optimize the quality of their health care programs and the value of their health care dollars.

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