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- The Missing Link: Driving Business Results Through Pay-for-performance
- It's no secret: leading businesses have discovered the power of linking compensation to employee performance. The results? Greater productivity, employees focused on company goals, and higher performance at all levels. Now it's your turn. Learn how you can drive amazing results through Pay-for-Performance by downloading this complimentary...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Pay-for-performance: What Is It and Why Is It Important to Nephrology?
- "Pay for Performance," "Value-Based Purchasing," and "Health Care Quality" have all become buzzwords in the current consideration of Medicare reform that is being debated both in and out of government. Pay-for- performance (P4P) is a catchall phrase for the many physician payment methodologies that provide incentive reimbursement to physicians who...
- White papers 2006-10-05
- ACPE Research Focuses on Tough Management Issues
- Surveys, interviews and research conducted over the last two years by the American College of Physician Executives are helping to identify and troubleshoot some of medical management's most pressing problems in health care today. Among the issues that ACPE took on are disruptive behavior by physicians, ethical breaches in health...
- White papers 2006-06-27
- Assessment of Pay-for-performance Options for Medicare Physician Services: Final Report
- Pay-for-Performance (P4P), the practice of paying health care providers differentially based on their quality performance, emerged in the late 1990s as the strategy for driving improvements in health care quality. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the largest purchaser of health care services in the United States, is...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Pay, Performance and Change: Is the Sky Falling on the Federal Civil Service?
- In the large bureaucracy that makes up the federal government, it is usually easier to have a system that generates fewer complaints. Unhappy people can and do create problems. Those that benefit the most from a system don't complain or file grievances. High performing achievers may quickly see other opportunities...
- White papers 2006-03-29
- Are You Ready for Pay for Performance?
- The federal government is in the process of implementing pay-for-performance systems in many Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Several Federal agencies already have these systems in place, either through OPM-approved demonstration projects or special legislation. And these systems could be implemented throughout the...
- White papers 2006-03-27
- Can "Pay for Performance" Increase Utilization by the Poor and Improve the Quality of Health Services?
- Increased world focus on improving health outcomes, as evidenced by initiatives such as the Global Fund, GAVI, PEPFAR, and the global commitment to meet the Millennium Development Goals, is revealing that money, buildings, numbers of health workers and drugs only move countries part of the way toward adequate utilization of...
- White papers 2006-02-07
- Pay for Performance: How Fast Is It Spreading?
- P4P (Pay-for-Performance) programs generally start with HMOs, which have greater penetration in California and Massachusetts than in the South or the Midwest. While an increasing number of pay-for-performance programs now include PPOs, it's an administrative challenge. Given that PPO patients can self-refer to any network physician, pay-for-performance sponsors have difficulty...
- White papers 2005-11-04
- Pay-for-performance: Assembling the Building Blocks of a Sustainable Program
- Five years after a landmark study1 revealed serious shortcomings in the U.S. healthcare system, problems with quality of care continue to afflict the system and costs continue to rise. Increasingly, hard-pressed stakeholders are scrambling to identify new tools that can slow cost increases while improving the overall reliability and efficacy...
- White papers 2005-10-07
- Pay for Performance or Compliance?: A Second Opinion on Medicare Reimbursement
- The current effort to change the payment system is well intentioned. Moreover, the rhetoric of "Quality-based purchasing" advocates, including a reliance on evidence-based medicine, best practices, and pay for performance as methods to improve health care quality, is appealing. In reality, however, they would constitute a reversal of the letter...
- White papers 2005-10-05
- Making Pay-for-performance Pay Off (Part 3)
- As the Bush administration's initiatives to establish "Pay-for-performance" move toward implementation, questions and doubts prevail. In previous papers, suggestions were made concerning the changes in selection, training, and priorities needed to maximize the possibility of successful implementation. What remains to be examined is a new appraisal system designed to support...
- White papers 2005-07-27
- Making Pay-for-performance Pay Off, Part 2
- To date, managers have relied on human resources (HR) offices to determine salaries (grades) and employee longevity to determine salary increases within those grades. Under pay banding and pay-for-performance such decisions will be vested in line management for the first time. Beyond these new demands on line management lies another...
- White papers 2005-07-24
- Making Pay-for-performance Pay Off
- As the Congress and the administration move toward institutionalizing "Pay-for-performance" throughout the federal sector the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) are the vanguard agencies for widespread introduction of this concept. As their implementing regulations are about to be revealed, doubts and concerns within government are reaching tsunami...
- White papers 2005-07-20
- Pay-for-performance in Health Care: An Analysis of the Arguments for and Against
- Pay-for-performance is prevalent in the society. In general, the concept has both critics and proponents. The issue at hand is not whether Pay-for-performance is a valid way to increase productivity, lower costs or motivate people in general. Rather, the issue - as presented through arguments both for and against Pay-for-performance...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Achieving High Performance in Health Care: Pay-for-performance - Moving the Bar on Quality Reporting and Accountability
- Performance measures for health care quality improvement will have increasing impact on providers' image, market share and income. Providers need to be prepared for pay-for-performance, regardless of whether or not they're currently involved in quality management and incentive-based contracts. The use of pay-for-performance in health care is being driven principally...
- White papers 2005-06-15
- Pay for Performance: Two Critical Steps Needed to Achieve a Successful Program
- This paper builds on the framework of that report with a focus on 2 practical and critical steps essential to building a Pay-for-Performance (P4P) program that will actually impact quality and cost. There are multiple pathways and measurement approaches open to developing P4P programs. If done well, P4P appears to...
- White papers 2005-05-18
- Tackling Pay for Performance
- Physician leaders regard the current method of determining Medicare reimbursement as deeply flawed, but they have serious reservations about the proposed alternative. While they support the new "Pay for performance" approach because it could help improve quality, they want both Medicare and private payers to adhere to some basic principles...
- White papers 2005-05-06
- "Good Old Boys" and Pay for Performance
- What is the "Good old boy" network and when did it exist in the federal government's human resources system? It is the example used by a large number of readers to describe their fear of a pay for performance system. No one has ever said when the "good old boy"...
- White papers 2005-04-26
- Changing the Face of Financial Services: Human Capital Management
- Financial services executives have recognized that transaction automation and cost cutting will only take them so far in the new competitive landscape. They know that their success in today's environment revolves around how they develop and manage their human capital. They are reexamining hiring practices and job responsibilities, moving business...
- White papers 2005-03-10
- Pay for Performance: Improving Quality and Efficiency of Healthcare Delivery
- This white paper examines the history of the pay-for-performance healthcare reimbursement model, define measures of performance, challenges for healthcare organizations planning to implement pay-for performance systems, and the implications of pay-for-performance programs for healthcare IT. For pay-for-performance programs to address problems in healthcare delivery and rising costs, they must be...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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