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Category: Pay for Performance (P4P)
P4P and Multiple Chronic Conditions
Federal (P4P) programs are rapidly evolving from financial incentives for delivering quality health care to financial penalties for failing to meet quality metrics. This policy shift will have significant consequences for many providers, especially those serving patients with complex health Continue Reading …
Taking a Lesson from Taiwan
Government payers like are attempting to move away from the current fee-for-service model of health care billing—which some believe provides incentive for doctors to perform unnecessary tests and procedures—in favor of a new payment model: . Pay-for-performance programs link performance Continue Reading …
Incentivizing health over fee-for-service
In 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services started the Physician Quality Reporting System, or PQRS. PQRS operates on the premise that required reporting of specific delivery-of-care metrics will induce the necessary behavioral changes and infrastructural investment to better Continue Reading …
P4P bonuses don’t necessarily improve quality
Yet another study fails to provide evidence that pay-for-performance yields additional quality improvement. Pay-for-performance (P4P) continues as one of multiple experimental policies aimed at improving health care quality. Many studies of varying merit have scrutinized numerous aspects of P4P, but Continue Reading …
Revising Physician Reimbursement
The Society of General Internal Medicine provides 12 recommendations for reforming payment of physicians. It is commonly thought that the best way to abort the meteoric rise in health care costs is to move toward reimbursing quality and away from Continue Reading …
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