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Category: Pay for Performance (P4P)
Risky Business
Adjusting payments for social risk Continue Reading …
Does Pay-For-Performance Improve Outcomes?
Throughout the modern history of medicine, health care has been paid for in a “fee-for-service” framework – physicians performed services and physicians were paid for those services accordingly. A common criticism is that fee-for-service incentivizes physicians towards overuse without improving Continue Reading …
Paying for Quality
Paying for Quality from Megan Douglas
Reducing Never Events is no Easy Task
The Hospital-Acquired Condition—Present on Admission (HAC-POA) program of 2008 was one of the first federal initiatives to reduce hospital payments on the basis of adverse events. It prevents hospitals from being reimbursed by Medicare for the treatment of certain hospital-acquired Continue Reading …
Delivery System Reforms: Delivering Value?
Restructuring health care delivery to reduce costs and improve quality is a fundamental part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and a response to the long history of high domestic healthcare spending with suboptimal outcomes. In fact, the ACA mandated Continue Reading …
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