Has Pay-for-Performance Decreased Access for Minority Patients?

‏‎facilitating lexical access for the fluent production of speech‎‏

‏‎the hypothesis is that recent and frequent exposure to lexical items leads to a more fluent production of speech in terms of rate of speech. to test the hypothesis , a one- way anova experimental design was carried out. 24 senior student of efl participated in a one-way interview test. data analyses revealed that those who were exposed frequently to the lexical items over a week prior to inte...

‏‎faciliting lexical access for the fluent production of speech‎‏

‏‎the hypothesis is that recent and frequent exposure to lexical items leads to a more fluent production of speech in terms of rate of speech. to test the hypothesis,a one-way anova experimental design was carried out. 24 sednior students of efl participated in a one-way interview test. data analyses revealed that those who were exposed frequently to the lexical items over a week prior to inter...

Rewarding healthy behaviors--pay patients for performance.

Despite a considerable investment of resources into pay for performance, preliminary studies have found that it may not be significantly more effective in improving health outcome measures when compared with voluntary quality improvement programs. Because patient behaviors ultimately affect health outcomes, I would propose a novel pay-for-performance program that rewards patients directly for a...

Pay for performance.

Pay-for-Performance Initiatives

BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of care provided to beneficiaries while reining in costs, is a key goal for Medicare programs. The emerging payfor-performance (P4P) movement is a reimbursement strategy that provides incentives to improve the overall quality care provided to patients, which can lead to improved clinical outcomes and reduced health care utilization and costs. OBJECTIVE: To revi...