MedPage Today reports that the “American Medical Association wants physician work-life balance added to provider-experience measures for evaluating how well alternative payment models function” address what is seen as the growing  incidence of physician burnout under the stress of ever more complicated work, including vast quantities of red tape and record-keeping.
The new AMA policy, approved following the annual meeting of its House of Delegates, also changed  its support of the “Triple Aim” to  support of the “Quadruple Aim”. As originally conceived in the development of healthcare reform in recent years, the Triple Aim seeks to improve patient experience and the health of populations and to cut per-capita costs.

The AMA will ask the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to use the Quadruple Aim when evaluating Accountable Care Organizations and other practice