Payment for performance in health care

Payment for performance in health care.

Integrating Pay-for-Performance into Health Care Payment Systems

Health care payers have implemented pay-for-performance contracts without explicit characterization of the underlying quality problem or an understanding of the interaction between pay-for-performance and existing payment mechanisms. In this paper, ine cient quality of health care services stems from di culty consumers have in observing some aspects of quality. Traditional health care payment s...

Willingness to pay for contract health care services in dairy animals: a payment card study

A study was undertaken in southern peninsular state of India, the Tamil Nadu State, to assess the farmers’ “Willingness to pay” (WTP) for receiving annual health care services to their dairy animals. The districts of the state were categorized as “Livestock developed” (LD) and “Livestock under developed” (LUD) based on initial base line developed. Contingent valuation (CV) approach was used to ...

Challenges of Payment System to Primary Health Care Providers in Iranian Comprehensive Health Centers

Background and purpose: The primary health care program for the suburbs is being implemented in Iran after the Health Transformation Plan where services are delivered with the priority of outsourcing and purchasing services from non-governmental sectors. In this program, different payment methods have been used. This study aimed at addressing the challenges associated with payments made to urba...

Preventive Health Care and Payment Systems

Prevention has been a main issue of recent policy orientations in health care. This renews the interest on how different organizational designs and the definition of payment schemes to providers may affect the incentives to provide preventive health care. We focus on the externality resulting from referral decisions from primary to acute care providers. This makes our analysis complementary to ...