pay-for-performance news from FierceHealthcare
NewsInterview: Health exec pay to focus on long-term, not annual, goals
Kevin Talbot
Health executives on average received salary increases of 3 percent at healthcare systems and 2.8 percent at independent and subsidiary hospitals, according to a recent report Read more...
Quality incentives show mixed results for hospitals, payers
As the industry shifts toward rewarding quality and not quantity, healthcare leaders still wonder whether pay-for-performance (P4P) models will actually improve care and cut costs. According to a Read more...
Hospitals save $105M by reducing complications, rewarding quality
Hospitals in Maryland saved more than $105 million during the past two years by cutting infections and other hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), following the recent success of Michigan hospitals, Read more...
Don'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...
Physicians compensated for volume, not quality
Like nails against a chalkboard, a new study by Merritt Hawkins reveals that physicians are compensated for patient volume and not quality, a trend that has some dismayed at current recruitment and Read more...
Cheating is the downside of targeted P4P, study says
As government and private payers look to pay-for-performance (P4P)--also called value-based purchasing--as the payment model that will push providers to produce higher-quality patient care at a lower Read more...
Federal pay-for-performance initiatives could mean more financial heartache for poor hospitals
Will the government's planned implementation institutional bonuses through pay-for-performance initiatives rob from poor hospitals and give to the rich? Not exactly, but it will create a "reverse Read more...
Study: Safety net hospitals improve care in P4P demo project
While electronic medical records made the job easier, even safety net hospitals with less information technology tools in place managed to improve patient care through pay for performance incentives, Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Pay-for-performance doesn't help U.K. diabetics
Here in the U.S., health plans and employers seem fairly happy with the results of many pay-for-performance programs. But in the U.K., it seems that P4P programs didn't do much to help diabetics--and Read more...
Study: P4P works with proper incentives
Building on what seems to be a growing consensus, a new study concludes that pay-for-performance schemes can be effective if doctors get the right incentives. The study, which appears in the American Read more...
| Press ReleasesPay for performance targets do not improve patient healthPay for performance targets set for GPs in the UK are failing to improve the health of patients with high blood pressure. The new study, which presents the strongest evidence yet that pay for Read more >> Press Release: Pay for Performance in Healthcare Gets an “Incomplete†Report CardPay for Performance in Healthcare Get an “Incomplete†Report Card Says PricewaterhouseCoopers Report Universal Measures, Greater Financial Incentives for Doctors Needed to Improve Quality New Read more >> |
