Can money buy quality? Physician response to pay for performance.

What Money Cannot Buy? Compassion in Healthcare: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Early experience with pay-for-performance: from concept to practice.

CONTEXT The adoption of pay-for-performance mechanisms for quality improvement is growing rapidly. Although there is intense interest in and optimism about pay-for-performance programs, there is little published research on pay-for-performance in health care. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a prototypical physician pay-for-performance program on quality of care. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PAR...

Can Money Buy Success?: A Study of Team Payroll and Performance in the MLB

Using the last 16 years of winning percentages and pay-scales of the MLB teams, I investigated the relationship between team performance and payroll. I found strong evidence that during the regular season games, the payroll plays a significant positive role on the performance. Although the results of the individual team studies were not conclusive, the results were prominent when all teams are ...

The Holy Grail of Advertising? Quality Signaling and Revenue Implications of "Pay- Per-Performance" Advertising

While there is a growing stream of research examining online sponsored search advertising, an important area that has not yet received enough attention is the interplay between pay-per-performance advertising and the quality of the firms who choose to invest in it. Our objective in this work is to explore how the shift from pay-for-exposure to pay-for-performance advertising affects the ability...

Paying for Quality: Understanding and Assessing Physician Pay-for-Performance Initiatives.

Pay-for-performance (P4P) initiatives have been discussed since the early 1990s, but support for the concept has grown recently, fueled by experience with quality of care measures, endorsements by key players and research that underlines the need for quality improvements and reform to the physician payment system. This synthesis examines the evidence on P4P. Key findings include: About one-thir...