OBJECTIVE To determine whether hospitals increase efforts on easy tasks relative to difficult tasks to improve scores under pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives. DATA SOURCE The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare data from Fiscal Years 2003 through 2005 and 2003 American Hospital Association Annual Survey data. STUDY DESIGN We classified measures of process complian...

BACKGROUND Many people are concerned about that the quality of preventive care for patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is suboptimal. Taiwan, a hyperendemic area of chronic HBV and HCV infection, implemented a nationwide pay-for-performance (P4P) program in 2010, which aimed to improve the preventive care provided to HBV and HCV patients by increasing phy...

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...

P ay-for-performance programs have been embraced by United States and United Kingdom policy makers and payors (those who pay for health-care services) as a means to improve the quality of health care. In fact, since the Institute of Medicine's 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm suggested realigning incentives to improve care [1], the UK's National Health Service (NHS) introduced pay-for-per...

Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired with any existing payment mechanism such as a salary, fee-for-services and capitation. However, the link between the physician response to performance incentives and the existing payment mechanisms is still not well understood. In this article, we study this link using the recent...

BACKGROUND During the last decade there has been a growing concern about the lack of results in the health sectors of many low income countries. Progress has been particularly slow in maternal- and child health. Prompted by the need to accelerate progress towards these health outcomes, pay-for- performance (P4P) schemes have been initiated in a number of countries. This paper explores the perce...

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...

The recent regulatory changes enacted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have identified hospital readmission rates as a critical healthcare quality metric. This research focuses on the utilization of pay-for-performance (P4P) mechanisms to cost effectively reduce hospital readmission rates and meet the regulatory standards set by CMS. Using the experimental economics labor...

BACKGROUND An intervention movement in managed care, disease management (DM), is a system of coordinated health care interventions and communication for populations with conditions in which patient self-care efforts are significant. Another managed care intervention movement, pay for performance (P4P), involves an incentive component in which payment is defined based on meeting specific, previo...

CONTEXT In France, a new payment for performance (P4P) scheme for primary care physicians was introduced in 2009 through the 'Contract for Improving Individual Practice' programme. Its objective was to reduce healthcare expenditures while enhancing improvement in guidelines' observance. Nevertheless, in all countries where the scheme was implemented, it raised several concerns in the domain of ...