Does Measuring Performance Change Performance?

Last week, I took a look at how hospitals are stacking up when it comes to meeting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 5-Star Rating System definition of performance (see Consumer Star Ratings For Hospitals – It’s Only Going To Get Harder To Earn Those 5 Stars). But it is one thing to report on the performance of provider organizations in the interests of consumer transparency – it's another to see if those performance measures are actually changing provider organization performance. With regard to the performance measures in the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program and . . .