Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs offer financial incentives to healthcare providers improve the quality of care and patient safety. Various modifications P4P approaches have been thrust into almost all medical specialities, including radiology, despite being a referral speciality. This article introduces performance-based premium pay system for radiology personnel implemented in departments p...

OBJECTIVE Describing the extent and forms of use of pay for performance (P4P) in Colombian healthcare. METHODS This was a descriptive study based on interviews and surveys of health insurance agency managers in Bogotá, Colombia. The authors relied on transaction cost theory to interpret the results. RESULTS P4P was found to be used by contribution scheme insurers in an outpatient setting, b...

Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have the potential to improve overall quality of care by narrowing gaps between what national care guidelines recommend and those treatments actually delivered in routine community practice. P4P is also viewed as a tool to promote more efficient use of healthcare resources while improving patient outcomes. P4P provides financial incentives for quality of servi...

Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are expanding their purview from quality to include efficiency, and many consider the episode of care as the appropriate unit of measurement. Two years' experience by the California P4P program, however, reveals that the requisite claims data often are incomplete or poorly coded and that even large physician groups have too few patients experiencing most types...

Pay for performance (P4P) aims to use reimbursement to incentivize providers to deliver high-quality services. Th is article examines P4P in fi ve Medicaid nursing home programs: Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Utah, and Vermont. It describes each program and draws lessons regarding program participation, fi nancing, measurement, administration, and development. Findings highlight the importance of ...

The pay-for-performance (P4P) mechanism is a strategy in the health sector to increase availability, quality and utilization of services. In P4P, incentives are given after achieving series agreed outcomes by improving performance workers facilities. This literature review was conducted with aim knowing impact implementing at primary care (FKTP) on services various countries. method carried out...

BACKGROUND Pay for performance (P4P) initiatives are designed to foster and reward improvement in health care delivery. These programs promote "value-based health care" by rewarding quality care that is characterized by a reduced amount of disproportionate spending. OBJECTIVE To review the intent and design of P4P initiatives as well as the design and results of P4P programs in current practi...

BACKGROUND Pay-for-performance (P4P) is increasingly implemented in the healthcare system to encourage improvements in healthcare quality. P4P is a payment model that rewards healthcare providers for meeting pre-established targets for delivery of healthcare services by financial incentives. Based on their performance, healthcare providers receive either additional or reduced payment. Currently...

Pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs can increase the quality of health care for the services being measured. However, unless carefully designed, these programs may have the unintended consequence of increasing racial and ethnic disparities. This paper describes ways in which P4P and public reporting programs may increase disparities and suggests ways in which program...