PARTICIPANT SURVEY FEEDBACK STRENGTHENS KANSAS PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

Pay-for-Performance quality incentive program – one year pilot program

Introduction The Hospital Authority (HA) is a statutory body that was established under the Hospital Authority Ordinance. It has managed public hospitals in Hong Kong since 1991. Hospitals in Hong Kong are divided into seven geographically based clusters. HA has designed a “Payfor-Performance (P4P) model” which includes incentives to promote productivity and quality. In the second year of this ...

Impacts of performance pay for hospitals: The Readmissions Reduction Program

Policy makers are increasingly tying payments for health care providers to their performance on quality measures, though there is little empirical evidence to guide the design of such incentives. I deploy administrative Medicare claims data to study a large federal program which penalizes hospitals with high rates of repeat hospitalizations (“readmissions”). I exploit the introduction of the pe...

Goals and Effects of “Iranian Pay for Performance” Program for Non-Medical Workforce in Teaching Hospitals: Qualitative Study

Goals and Effects of “Iranian Pay for Performance” Program for Non-Medical Workforce in Teaching Hospitals: Qualitative Study Serajaddin Gray1, Mohammad Aghajani2, Razieh Ronasian3, Saeed Manavi4, Iraj Harirchi5, Alireza Olyaee Manesh1, 6, *, Mani Yousefvand1, Seyedeh Hosnieh Shafaee Tonekaboni3, Pejman Hamouzadeh1, Farhad Habibi Nodeh7 1Department of Health Management and Economics, School o...

Non-performance of the Severance Pay Program in Slovenia

Combining information from the Firm Survey of Labor Costs with the information about claims filed with the Guarantee Fund by workers whose employers defaulted on their severance pay obligations, the paper analyzes the so-called non-performance problem of severance pay – the fact that coverage, and thus legal entitlement, does not guarantee the actual receipt of the benefit – as experienced in S...

Pay for performance.