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Quality at a Price: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications of a Pay-for-Performance Strategy
Award Year: 2006 Investigator: Gary YoungAre pay-for-performance (P4P) programs, which provide financial incentives to health care providers for achieving quality targets, the silver bullet for improving health care quality or just another fad? While many health plans located throughout the United States, as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, are creating P4P programs, their ability to improve health care quality and reduce costs has not been established. Gary J. Young, J.D., Ph.D.
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Improving the Performance of Performance Reporting and Quality-Based Purchasing Initiatives
Award Year: 2004 Investigator: R. Adams DudleyHealth care performance measurement and reporting is receiving a great deal of attention as a way to encourage providers to deliver better care. Yet several murky areas remain about what to measure, how to measure it, and how best to use health care performance measures. R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A., considers several key policy and technical issues in his project, Improving the Performance of Performance Reporting and Quality-Based Purchasing Initiatives.
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Can Private Purchasers Cross the Quality Chasm? Learning from the Leaders
Award Year: 2002 Investigator: Dennis ScanlonRecent reports by the Institute of Medicine identify serious problems with the quality of health care delivery in America and look to public and private purchasers as catalysts for change. Dennis P. Scanlon, Ph.D. is interested in the extent to which private purchasers can stimulate major improvements in health care quality. His project, Can Private Purchasers Cross the Quality Chasm?
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