Saturday, November 28, 2009

Paying for Quality, not Quantity

A new study from the UCLA School of Public Health (I know, I know - groan groan groan...) shows evidence that Pay-for-Performance programs can be more effective if they incentivize better quality in patient-clinician interaction and clinical outcomes rather than physician productivity.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/medical-pay-for-performance-improves-112787.aspx

A fitting warning to help avoid making health reform look like the old fee-for-service model...

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