Quality Payment Program year 2

Quality and the physician value-based payment program.

In the last decade, there has been a rapidly growing emphasis and imperative for healthcare quality improvement. With the vast number of stakeholders involved, it is reaching a pinnacle of activity and requirements. The federal government has been developing and implementing quality initiatives across the healthcare system spectrum. This article looks at three major programs: the Hospital Value...

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 ...

Addressing the Payment Program Challenges

Impact of Taiwan's integrated prospective payment program on prolonged mechanical ventilation: a 6-year nationwide study.

OBJECTIVE The integrated prospective payment program (IPP), which encourages the integrated care of mechanically ventilated patients in order to reduce the heavy utilization of high-cost ICUs, has been implemented by Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance since July 2000. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of this program on weaning, hospital stay, mortality, and cost for pati...

Loyalty Program Scheme for Anonymous Payment Systems

Loyalty program is a marketing effort by the merchant to keep customers loyal to their stores. It tries to keep track of the purchasing-behavior of a customer by recording customer’s purchase information, including his credit card number, as a key identifier to the customer. While it may benefit the customer, the drawback is that the privacy of the customer is intruded. If the customer is using...