WHO: David Turetsky, director of Product Management, Talent Management Solutions for Workscape, a leading provider of outsourced benefits and talent management solutions WHAT: Will...
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"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...
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...
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...
Two of Mayo Clinic's top executives have called for a reimbursement system based on value rather than the current pay-for-performance system used by many insurers, including Medicare. Two of Mayo Clinic's top executives have called for a reimbursement system based on value rather than...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NEW YORK -- Aetna (NYSE: AET) has entered into a pay-for-performance contract with the NYU Medical Center. Under the new "hospital services compensation schedule," Aetna will financially reward NYU Medical Center for superior performance and/or continuous improvement on nationally recognized measures of patient safety and quality of care, as well...
HARTFORD, Conn. -- As part of the company's ongoing commitment to promoting quality improvement, Aetna (NYSE:AET) today announced that it will recognize the American Board of Internal Medicine's ABIM Maintenance of Certification MOC in its pay-for-performance program for primary care physicians in the Delaware Valley.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. & CHICAGO -- Blue Cross of California has named Facey Medical Group as the top-performing medical group in Southern California, awarding physicians with $1.2 million in pay-for-performance bonuses based on their 2004 Quality Performance Scorecard.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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