Financial Incentives news from FierceHealthcare
NewsDon't count on financial incentives to improve care quality
The healthcare industry has put much focus on pay-for-performance programs to improve the quality of care. Yet new research questions this approach and suggests that providing financial incentives to Read more...
New payment models promote undertreatment, malpractice risks
New coordinated care models, like accountable care organizations (ACOs), are being touted as ways to eliminate unnecessary tests and procedures and improve care. While these new arrangements may Read more...
Study: Pay-for-performance doesn't work
Pay-for-performance initiatives that tie better outcomes to financial incentives for physicians don't work, according to a study published recently in the British Medical Journal. The finding comes Read more...
Hospitals offer cash incentives for employee housing
Two Detroit hospitals and a university are offering employees financial incentives to live in the city's Midtown area, reports the Associated Press. The push is designed to draw more residents to the Read more...
Experts say pros of paying patients to take medications outweigh the cons
As we reported last month, up to half of all patients fail to take their medications faithfully as prescribed, compromising their health and costing the healthcare system $100 billion in preventable Read more...
Prevention screenings increase when physicians get financial incentives, study finds
While quality of provider care shouldn't be based on financial incentives given to doctors, a new study examining the concept of monetarily rewarding certain patient screenings shows that such a Read more...
Blues suggest that public health insurance poses threat
Now here's a shocker: top execs from leading Blues plan are arguing that a public insurance plan will be bad for competition and could sneak in (gasp!) a single-payer system. The main theme of Read more...
Blues claim improvement in cost and outcomes
Score one for hospital quality improvement programs: The Blues announced at a news conference that they have been successful in improving patient outcomes and reducing costs through Blue Distinction Read more...
Wait to see primary care MDs growing in MA
Here's a look at the future of the U.S. health system: In the state of Massachusetts, the wait to see primary care doctors has grown to as long as 100 days as the number of practices accepting new Read more...
Grassley to introduce imaging self-referral bill
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) plans to introduce a bill that he says would cast a spotlight on physicians' financial incentives to order imaging services. The bill, which will be called the Medicare Read more...
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