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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]
Launched in October 2003, the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project was designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals were effective at improving the quality of inpatient care.
Advocates of bundled payments note: 25 to 30 percent of hospital procedures are wasteful without improving the quality of care. [47] Unlike fee-for-service, bundled payment discourages unnecessary care, encourages coordination across providers, and potentially improves quality.
Jessica Staten was billed $5,313.63 by the Catholic health system PeaceHealth, which operates the only hospital in Bellingham, Washington. To pay off the medical bill from St. Joseph Medical ...
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There could be an opportunity to tweak the way we pay CEOs of big public companies. I hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but when you consider that the average 2008 compensation for the 10 highest ...
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]
Pay for performance (healthcare), an emerging movement in health insurance in Britain and the United States, in which providers are rewarded for quality of healthcare system; Pay-for-Performance (Federal Government), proposed and implemented systems of incentive pay based on job performance metrics. See also "Federal Government Merit Pay ...