You Get What You Pay For: Result- Based Compensation for Health Care
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چکیده
That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity. 1 Methods of payment are another critical environmental force that must be aligned with the objective of improving quality. Current payment methods do not adequately encourage or support the provision of quality health care, and in some instances, they may actually impede local innovations and efforts to improve quality.
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