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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
February 27, 2008

Study Looks at Pay-for-Performance Programs

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has published the results of a study into the efficacy of pay-for-performance programs intended to improve quality of health care. The report, titled 'Paying for Quality: Understanding and Assessing Physician Pay-for-Performance Initiatives,' found several issues surrounding the implementation of these programs. For example, although many health plans pay-for-performance programs are already in force, methods for measuring their usefulness over time are largely lacking. In addition, although most physicians are not opposed to pay-for-performance programs, their confidence in any plan's ability to differentiate good performance from bad is limited. For more information, go to: http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=24373.

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