Aligning Ambition and Incentives

Aligning Incentives in Medicare

Executive Summary: Aligning Stakeholder Incentives in Orthopaedics

Productive discussion and analysis of how to align stakeholder incentives in orthopaedics requires identifying the key stakeholders, understanding their perspectives, delineating the issues necessitating alignment, and being willing to delve into contentious areas. The participants of the 2008 ABJS Carl T. Brighton Workshop in Tampa, Florida did just this and pushed themselves to never lose sig...

Aligning incentives for academic physicians to improve health care quality.

ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERS PLAY A LEADing role in the development of new knowledge, yet the quality of care in academic hospitals is on average only modestly better than that of care provided by community hospitals. However, averages are also misleading. In one study evaluating care of patients with acute coronary syndrome, 15 of the 20 top-performing institutions were community hospitals....

Medicare Payment Reform: Aligning Incentives for Better Care.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided the Medicare program with an array of tools to improve the quality of care that beneficiaries receive and to increase the efficiency with which that care is provided. Notably, the ACA has created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, which is developing and testing promising new models to improve the quality of care provided to Medicare bene...

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards