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NewsTop patient care performers are most profitable hospitals
Hospitals with high performance scores in patient care are more profitable, according to a new Press Ganey report. The top 25 percent of U.S. hospitals with the highest scores on the Hospital Read more...
Physician groups fight early pay-for-performance plan
Despite objections from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing an early launch of Read more...
Physician bonuses more closely linked to performance
Performance-based bonuses are becoming more common, according to Hay Group's 2010 Physician Compensation Survey. In 2009, nearly all group-based organizations (92 percent) offered bonuses, also known 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...
Docs, hospitals should share responsiblity for readmissions
Hospitals may soon have plenty of incentive to lower their readmission rates, with the Obama administration considering doling out bonuses to facilities that can do so, and penalizing those with Read more...
Medicare hands out $12M in hospital quality bonuses
The 230 hospitals that took part in the CMS/HQID value-based purchasing project raised their overall quality by an average of 17.2 percent during the fourth year of the project on delivery of 30 Read more...
Focus on physician income misses the point
This month, two studies on physician compensation came out. One suggested that doctors' income was going up slowly because it wasn't beating inflation; another noted that physician compensation grew 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...
CA group announces 2007 P4P results
California healthcare group Integrated Healthcare Association has announced the 2007 pay-for-performance program results and performance award winners. The IHA found that clinical quality and Read more...
CMS to expand 'value-based' purchasing efforts
Brace yourself: It looks like CMS is going to expand its value-based purchasing efforts, throwing yet another wrinkle into a relationship that's complicated enough as it is. According to Thomas Read more...
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