I received this email from a fellow Placebian. I guess I am not the only one who thinks this alphabet soup stuff is horsesh%t:
Hey Doug,
I got this bit of junk mail from the NCQA today, and I think that it is of note that among their draft criteria for an ACO is that the primary care practices within it practice "patient centered care." Hmm, and who is responsible for creating the group of hoops that primary care doctors have to jump through in order to be "recognized" as a PCMH?? I guess it only matters that PCPs have to be "patient centered." The rest of the crowd can continue to do whatever they darned well please. Pretty soon its just going to be NPs, PAs and the specialists who employ them.
Bo Kopynec
2011 Draft ACO Criteria
Public Comment Opens October 19, 2010
From October 19 - November 19, 2010 all parties are invited to comment on NCQA's 2011 Draft ACO Criteria. NCQA defines Accountable Care Organizations as:
Provider-based organizations that take responsibility for meeting the health care needs of a defined population with the goal of simultaneously improving health, improving patient experience and reducing per capita costs.
There is a vigorous debate in policy circles today about how to qualify organizations to act as ACOs and how to evaluate their performance. NCQA's position is that we should begin with structure and process measures that tell us that ACOs have the infrastructure necessary to achieve the triple aim. We do believe that there is an important performance measurement agenda and anticipate phasing measurement in as soon as organizations are able to report valid, reliable, comparable performance results.
To support the formation of sustainable accountable organizations, NCQA believes that we must have clear standards that assess capabilities that improve the likelihood of a potential ACO's success and that provide a blueprint and a pathway (with clear stages) to full ACO capability. We believe that retrospective measurement of organizations to discover those that are currently at the highest level of ACO capability will not accomplish this aim. NCQA has convened national experts to develop a parsimonious set of standards that in our judgment assess the core capabilities that improve the probability of ACO success.
Hey Doug,
I got this bit of junk mail from the NCQA today, and I think that it is of note that among their draft criteria for an ACO is that the primary care practices within it practice "patient centered care." Hmm, and who is responsible for creating the group of hoops that primary care doctors have to jump through in order to be "recognized" as a PCMH?? I guess it only matters that PCPs have to be "patient centered." The rest of the crowd can continue to do whatever they darned well please. Pretty soon its just going to be NPs, PAs and the specialists who employ them.
Bo Kopynec
2011 Draft ACO Criteria
Public Comment Opens October 19, 2010
From October 19 - November 19, 2010 all parties are invited to comment on NCQA's 2011 Draft ACO Criteria. NCQA defines Accountable Care Organizations as:
Provider-based organizations that take responsibility for meeting the health care needs of a defined population with the goal of simultaneously improving health, improving patient experience and reducing per capita costs.
There is a vigorous debate in policy circles today about how to qualify organizations to act as ACOs and how to evaluate their performance. NCQA's position is that we should begin with structure and process measures that tell us that ACOs have the infrastructure necessary to achieve the triple aim. We do believe that there is an important performance measurement agenda and anticipate phasing measurement in as soon as organizations are able to report valid, reliable, comparable performance results.
To support the formation of sustainable accountable organizations, NCQA believes that we must have clear standards that assess capabilities that improve the likelihood of a potential ACO's success and that provide a blueprint and a pathway (with clear stages) to full ACO capability. We believe that retrospective measurement of organizations to discover those that are currently at the highest level of ACO capability will not accomplish this aim. NCQA has convened national experts to develop a parsimonious set of standards that in our judgment assess the core capabilities that improve the probability of ACO success.
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