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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...
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...
N.J. Blue plan files to go for-profit
New Jersey's Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield has filed with the state to convert from not-for-profit to for-profit status, in what it says is a bid to boost its financial options. In its filing... Read more...
CMS says doctors earned $16.7M on P4P demo
You've gotta love it when CMS gives out money above and beyond the usual reimbursement rates--and it's even better when the bonuses involved work out for pretty much everyone involved. That's the... 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...
CMS awards $7M to top performers in P4P program
CMS has announced that it will award a collective $7 million this year to the 112 top performing hospitals in its ongoing pay-for-performance project with Premier. The best performer, Sacred Heart... Read more...
