Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Patrick Fitzgerald, MPH
Mr. Fitzgerald currently works as an analyst for UCare, a Managed Care Organization serving Medicaid and Medicare recipients in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
P4P: One review to rule them all
The body of literature remains mixed on P4P programs. Evidence that it is overtly effective remains elusive but would be so…precious…to policy makers. Pay for performance (P4P) continues to expand as a way to incentivize health care quality and efficiency Continue Reading …
Consumer-directed health care
Consumer-Directed Health Plans have increased in popularity but are only marginally helpful. Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) intend to control costs by shifting the financial risk of health care decision-making from payers to patients. CDHPs require consumers to enroll in a Continue Reading …
Converting financial incentives into quality
Pay-for-performance in health care seeks to correct the unconscionably low level of quality provided to some patients. In practice, achieving quality through financial incentives continues to prove a difficult endeavor. Pay-for-performance (P4P) in healthcare emerged as a result of two Continue Reading …
Convenient Clinics
The landscape of the health system in the United States is changing to offer patients improved access to care beyond the traditional doctor’s office or emergency room visit. The advancing popularity of retail clinics provides patients a choice when Continue Reading …
Gaming the System
Process measures for quality are subject to unintended consequences such as system gaming. As we have seen in diabetes care, this quality measure for bronchitis appears to have been manipulated by clinicians as well. Conventional wisdom backed by extensive data Continue Reading …
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