Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP), a not-for-profit public health plan in southern California, has selected Pharmacy Quality Solutions’ (PQS’) EQuIPP platform, as its neutral intermediary for Pay-for-Performance (P4P) program for pharmacies.
Allowing pharmacies and health plans to deploy performance-based payment systems, the EQuIPP is the first national platform for pharmacy quality measurement, benchmarking, and feedback. It guarantees consistent and accurate measurement of performance.
IEHP chief medical officer William Henning said that the IEHP Pharmacy P4P Program aims to extend the quality of care program into its community pharmacy network and using EQuIPP to better monitor their performance.
Recently, IEHP introduced a pay-for-performance (P4P) program for its network of pharmacies in southern California, which offers a bonus payment to pharmacies on every six months based on the quality of medication use for its members.
The quality of medication used, is examined across seven performance measures and each pharmacy in the IEHP network is able to track its performance through personalized dashboards within EQuIPP.
PQS president David Nau said, "Measuring performance is powerful in transforming the quality of the medication-use system, but only if pharmacies and health plans have access to standard dashboards that objectively reflect how they compare against meaningful quality measures."
