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Vendor-Developed Measures
- Episode-based: ETGs, MEGs, CCGs
- Claims aggregated into clinically-defined episodes and attributed to different entities
- Measure is cost per episode (productive efficiency)
- Also can look at resource use per episode (technical efficiency)
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