Performance related pay for hospital doctors.

Performance related pay for hospital doctors.

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The effect of performance-related pay of hospital doctors on hospital behaviour: a case study from Shandong, China

BACKGROUND With the recognition that public hospitals are often productively inefficient, reforms have taken place worldwide to increase their administrative autonomy and financial responsibility. Reforms in China have been some of the most radical: the government budget for public hospitals was fixed, and hospitals had to rely on charges to fill their financing gap. Accompanying these changes ...

Hospital Size, Uncertainty, and Pay-for-Performance

We construct statistical models to assess whether hospital size will impact the ability to identify "true" hospital ranks in pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. We use Bayesian hierarchical models to estimate the uncertainty associated with the ranking of hospitals by their raw composite score values for three medical conditions: acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and commun...

Pay for performance and the hospital quality initiative.

This paper describes the history of the Hospital Quality Initiative (HQI) and describes plans that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have for this data set. There are suggestions on how to improve physician acceptance of these benchmarks and how an institution can improve compliance rates with the data elements. There is also a discussion with respect to weaknesses and streng...