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Paying for Better Quality using P4P incentives: Promoting or Compromsing Quality
Paying for Better Quality using P4P incentives: Promoting or Compromsing Quality
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 12:40 PM - 1:20 PM
Pay for performance incentives are increasingly incorporated into hospital and practitioner payments. Yet there is substantial empirical evidence that pay for performance does not improve the outcomes of care, and suggestive evidence from behavioral economics to believe that it may harm provider motivation and global quality.
Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health educationBiostatistics, economics
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Explain the logic and evidence supporting pay for performance.
Assess how pay-for-performance relates to other developments in health policy.
Keyword(s): Quality of Care, Health Care Reform
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I worked in hospital quality assurance for many years, and have published dozens of peer reviewed articles on health policy, including several on pay for performance.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.