Pay for Performance

Hey guys,
Just to follow-up on our discussion on Pay for Performance issues in class this afternoon...a friend in the MBA-MPH program worked a lot with P4P in SoCal before coming to Berkeley, and found that unfortunately it's got a lot of kinks that still need to be worked out (as we talked about today.) He sent me this video; it's pretty interesting what studies have found on how people's problem-solving methodologies change the second you give them some sort of consequence/goal/penalty/incentive riding on the outcome of their decisions. This video talks about the psychology of problem-solving in general, not specifically how it relates to physicians, but my friend said that he saw the application of this concept when he was working with the docs on the P4P initiative. The video's a little long, but you get the main points from the first 5-10 minutes :-)

-nina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y