Financial versus Non-Financial Incentives for Improving Patient Experience

Improving Health Using Financial Incentives

Paying the Patient IMPROVING HEALTH USING FINANCIAL INCENTIVES

Financial Incentives in Academia : Research versus Development ∗

This paper investigates the effects of monetary rewards on the pattern of research. We build a simple repeated model of a researcher capable to obtain innovative ideas. We analyse how the legal environment affects the allocation of researcher’s time between research and development. Although technology transfer objectives reduce the time spent in research, they might also induce researchers to ...

Financial incentives for improving the quality of primary care.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 85, Number 7 ◆ April 1, 2012 Clinical Scenario You are the medical director of a large primary care practice. The leaders of a major insurance company have noted that rates of cervical cancer screening, mammography, and smoking cessation counseling in your practice are below national averages. They have proposed providing financial incentives to physicians who provide ca...

Encouraging breastfeeding: financial incentives.

The NOSH (Nourishing Start for Health) three-phase research study is testing whether offering financial incentives for breastfeeding improves six-eight-week breastfeeding rates in low-rate areas. This article describes phase one development work, which aimed to explore views about practical aspects of the design of the scheme. Interviews and focus groups were held with women (n = 38) and health...