Motive Expands Practicing Wisely as APPs and AHPs Take on Bigger Roles

The healthcare performance platform now measures clinical decision-making across a broader care team

Motive Medical Intelligence is expanding its Practicing Wisely platform to include advanced practice providers and allied health professionals, reflecting the increasingly important role these clinicians play in U.S. healthcare.

The platform measures APPs and AHPs against evidence-based standards within their scope of practice, giving healthcare organizations a consistent view of clinical performance across physicians and non-physician clinicians.

The expansion comes as the healthcare workforce shifts toward more team-based care. The NP workforce grew an average of 10% annually between 2019 and 2023, while NPs and PAs accounted for 25.6% of Medicare outpatient evaluation and management visits in 2019, up from 14% in 2013.

Motive’s analysis found similar performance patterns among physicians, APPs and AHPs, including comparable levels of variation. The company says the findings support using a common, evidence-based framework to evaluate clinicians regardless of professional designation.

“Where you see high-performing physicians, you tend to see high-performing APPs and AHPs,” said Julie Scherer, Ph.D., Chief Solutions Officer at Motive. “Measuring everyone, individually, who renders care—to a single, evidence-based standard—is how organizations can drive meaningful improvement at scale.”

Practicing Wisely helps payers and providers identify variation and low-value care and target opportunities to improve quality while reducing unnecessary costs. Motive estimates that unnecessary and low-value services contribute to more than $400 billion in annual healthcare waste in the U.S.