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Pay-for-Performance Incentives: Holy Grail or Sippy Cup?

Author(s) -

Brian Caveney

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

north carolina medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.283

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 2379-4313

pISSN - 0029-2559

DOI - 10.18043/ncm.77.4.265

Subject(s) - incentive , holy grail , payment , patient satisfaction , service quality , business , health care , operations management , pay for performance , continuum of care , quality (philosophy) , service (business) , actuarial science , marketing , microeconomics , computer science , economics , finance , world wide web , economic growth , philosophy , epistemology

The health care system is slowly evolving from fee-for-service care to other forms of payment. Pay-for-performance contracts based on quality, patient satisfaction, and utilization are an important development along the continuum. The metrics are not perfect and do not always nudge clinicians to improve their performance, but many outcomes are likely to improve.

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