Starfield Summit on Advancing and Improving Measurement and Value in Primary Care

The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care (CPV), the ABFM Research department, and the Virginia Center for Health Innovations recently completed a four-part, virtual event focused on how to refine measures on Low Value Care in an effort to support the pursuit of value in primary care health care delivery. Funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), this 5th Starfield Summit on Advancing and Improving  Measurement and Value in Primary Care assembled 50 prominent advisors including federal and state policy leaders, academics and measurement experts, payors, clinician leaders, and patients to focus more attention on the value that primary care delivers through continuous, caring relationships. In this series, these experts refined a small set of ‘no value services,’ built on evidence from Choosing Wisely and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, intended to direct further investments that more substantially recognize the value that family medicine provides in American medicine. A final report from this work and a number of public-facing products are expected to emerge in the months ahead. Stay tuned for those updates!