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Category: Pay for Performance (P4P)
How Patient Case-Mix Adjustment affects Pay-for-Performance Payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has a pay-for-performance pilot program that links hospital process performance to financial incentives. This paper sought to determine whether patient case mix alters overall performance ratings relative to other hospitals and whether adjustments Continue Reading …
Using Pay for Performance to Promote Smoking Cessation
This randomized, unblinded clinical trial sought to determine if a financial incentive program could encourage clinicians to refer smokers to a Tobacco Quit Line. The unit of study was the individual health clinic; all clinics were a part of a Continue Reading …
(Non)Pay for (Non)Performance
A recent Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine explores Medicare’s plan to cease payments for 8 conditions – often reported as secondary diagnoses upon hospital discharge – that should never occur. Among these include: (1) objects left inside Continue Reading …
Medicare’s Pay-for-Performance Experiment
Pay for performance (P4P), a model of rewarding and punishing health care providers based on the quality of care delivered to patients, was recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in spring 2005.
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