Pay for performance triggers improved treatment for adolescents with substance abuse, but there wasn't any significant difference in remission rates, according to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Researchers concluded that pay for performance still is an effective incentive payment method. "[O]ffering monetary bonuses directly to therapists had a large effect on increasing their demonstration of monthly competency in implementing treatment procedures with patients and the delivery of a predefined threshold level of treatment to adolescent patients," researchers said. Announcement