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Category: Pay for Performance (P4P)
Reinventing Health Care by Paying for Quality
Health care systems around the world are beginning to shift from paying for any and all care provided to incentivizing the provision of high quality care. However, pay-for-performance programs create their own problems. The reinvention of health care begins with Continue Reading …
MassHealth’s P4P Program Fails to Produce
Conflicting with evidence from other studies, an evaluation of MassHealth’s Medicaid Pay-for-Performance plan failed to show a significant effect on quality improvement measures despite spending $2.6 million for incentives. Pay for Performance (P4P) is the concept of using financial incentives Continue Reading …
Measuring physician performance
The Affordable Care Act calls for physician-specific performance measures to be introduced in the coming years. Lessons from Florida and Colorado offer helpful suggestions. In order to improve quality of care, quality measurements and reporting must provide comprehensive and comparable Continue Reading …
A Policy Prescription for 2011
Our blueprint for structuring a multi-payer universal health care system in the United States begins with crafting solutions to age-old problems: defining basic benefits, fixing medical malpractice, and redesigning physician payment. Throughout the past two years, Policy Prescriptions has reviewed Continue Reading …
P4P Improved Child Immunization Rates
Pay-for-performance can alter physician behavior if structured with appropriate and large enough incentives. This study based in New York showed that a P4P intervention can improve immunizations in children. This study used a case-comparison and an interrupted time series design Continue Reading …