Below is an edited excerpt from a recent Manatt Health Guide for Health Startups. Click here to read the full Guide and recommendations.
Overview
- Health tech startups often focus on quality measurement, because their customers and investors care about it.
- In some cases, companies have developed products where the primary goal is improving quality measure performance.
- In many cases, companies have products with other primary goals (for example, reducing excess utilization) and are trying to understand whether improved quality performance is a meaningful part of their value proposition.
- Leaders in health tech should understand details of how quality measurement and payment programs work, in order to have a realistic sense of how they could meaningfully affect measure performance, and how that improvement could affect their companies' bottom lines.
Overview of Common Measure Sets
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