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Pay for performance systems link compensation to measures of work quality or goals. Current methods of healthcare payment may actually reward less-safe care, since some insurance companies will not pay for new practices to reduce errors, while physicians and hospitals can bill for additional services that are needed when patients are injured by mistakes. [1]
In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4]
The Demonstration is a prime example of the shared savings model of payment reform [3] and represents Medicare's first physician Pay-for-Performance initiative. [4] The three main goals of the PGP Demonstration are: To encourage physician participation in Parts A & B of the Medicare Program; To promote cost efficiency and quality of care; and
Pay for performance may refer to: Pay for performance (human resources), a system of employee payment in the United States that links compensation to measures of work quality or goals; Pay for performance (healthcare), an emerging movement in health insurance in Britain and the United States, in which providers are rewarded for quality of ...
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Pay-for-Performance is a method of employee motivation meant to improve performance in the United States federal government by offering incentives such as salary increases, bonuses, and benefits. It is a similar concept to Merit Pay for public teachers and it follows basic models from Performance-related Pay in the private sector.
HCFA was renamed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 1, 2001. [9] [11] In 2013, a report by the inspector general found that CMS had paid $23 million in benefits to deceased beneficiaries in 2011. [12] In April 2014, CMS released raw claims data from 2012 that gave a look into what types of doctors billed Medicare the most. [13]
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