

Exploring Episode-Based Approaches for Medicare Performance Measurement, Accountability and Payment Final Report. Risk Adjustment of Episodes of Care for Payment and Performance Measurement
Most proposals in the literature acknowledge the need to risk-adjust (i.e., adojust for differences in patient populations across providers) episodes of cre for payment and some en a provider represents only a small fraction of all the care delivered and/or does not view her/himtypes of performance measurement, particularly for outcome measures.