A group of top officials with the British National Health Service are visiting Cleveland Regional Medical Center to learn more about the hospital's pay-for-performance program. The British officials are hoping to pick up tips on how to better run its existing pay-for-performance program, which has been so successful that physician bonuses busted the program's budget during the first year. Cleveland Regional was a top performer in the first phase of the Medicare pay-for-performance pilot [1]. The hospital--part of North Carolina-based Carolinas HealthCare System--did so well with its pay-for-performance participation that it it got $1.2 million in payments during the second year of the pilot.
To learn more about the British P4P visit:
- read this United Press International piece [2]
Related Article:
Medicare P4P results show care improvements. Report [3]
Positive results for Medicare P4P pilot. Report [1]
Exclusive: How to make P4P work. Interview [4]
Links:
[1] http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/positive-results-for-medicare-p4p-pilot/2006-09-01
[2] http://www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view.php?StoryID=20070326-040655-2385r
[3] http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/medicare-p4p-results-show-care-improvements/2007-01-29
[4] http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/exclusive-how-to-make-p4p-work/2006-08-24