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Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare

Released:
September 20, 2006
Type:
Consensus Report
Topic(s):
Health Services, Coverage, and Access, Quality and Patient Safety
Activity:
Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs
Board(s):
Board on Health Care Services

Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare analyzes the promise and risks of instituting a pay-for-performance program within Medicare to encourage a more effective health care system.

The options and recommendations presented by the committee discuss the staged implementation of such a program with the goal of improving the value of health care investments through mechanisms such as quality improvement and care coordination. 

Although focused on Medicare, this report also has significant implications for payers and purchasers in the private sector.

 

Report at a Glance

Fact Sheet (PDF)
Report Brief (PDF)

Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare (PDF)

Other Reports by this Activity

  • Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential examines the program in detail and proposes a major restructuring of it so that it can become an important national resource integral to strategies of performance measurement, public reporting, and payment incentives.
    Released: March 9, 2006
  • Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement The first report in the Pathways series, Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement, focuses on the selection of measures to support the quality improvement efforts of a diverse set of stakeholders, and on the creation of a common infrastructure for guiding and managing a consistent set of such measures nationally and regionally.
    Released: December 1, 2005

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