Report Describes Performance Incentive Program
In light of the national interest in implementing pay-for-performance, the healthcare community needs models to create suitable programming.
Such can be used to devise systems that support integration of tools for decision making and other solutions directed to improving patient outcomes.
The journal of Health Affairs reports on a performance-based incentive program initiated throughout the state of Maine. The program was a collaborative effort between hospitals and employers (as payers). Included was a two-tiered system for performance remuneration. For further details, see the article in Health Affairs.
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