pay-for-performance news from FierceHealthcare
NewsStudy: 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...
Drugmakers offer performance-based pricing
Now here's an idea that is likely to win a lot of fans. Under pressure from insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies have begun to adjust what they charge for medications based on how well the... Read more...
Pay-for-performance programs becoming more established
A new study has concluded that slowly but surely, pay-for-performance programs are becoming more established as part of the healthcare business. The study, the fourth annual survey on P4P by... Read more...
PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts major health system changes in 2009
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released a report on what it considers the top nine issues facing the healthcare industry in 2009. While many important issues are in play, among the biggest it... Read more...
Pay for no extra performance?
Pay-for-performance is obviously a very popular model at this point, but what about when there are extra payments for no extra performance? University and community hospitals are protesting to... Read more...
P4P program pays doctors for patients' performance
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana is rolling out an interesting pay-for-performance program that pays doctors for their patients' performance. Doctors will be rated on how many of their... Read more...
Big demand for pay-for-performance knowledge
A few years ago, pay-for-performance was mostly a subject of academic papers--and a few pioneering experiments on the West Coast. But things have changed a lot since then. At this year's MGMA, not... Read more...
Study: P4P may have little impact on quality
Of late, health plans and employers have been rolling out pay-for-performance programs aggressively, on the assumption that such programs offer a helpful method for improving healthcare quality. In... Read more...
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