Pay for performance for hospitals

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...

Introducing Pay-for-Performance within Hong Kong’s Public Hospitals

Introduction The Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA) manages 41 publicly funded hospitals that serve approximately 90% of the seven-million population. The head office of HA is responsible for strategic planning, resources allocation, and monitoring performance of hospitals that are organized into seven geographical clusters. The head office is transforming its population-based internal resources...

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...

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Pay-for-Performance Initiatives

BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of care provided to beneficiaries while reining in costs, is a key goal for Medicare programs. The emerging payfor-performance (P4P) movement is a reimbursement strategy that provides incentives to improve the overall quality care provided to patients, which can lead to improved clinical outcomes and reduced health care utilization and costs. OBJECTIVE: To revi...