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Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers / Kathleen J. Mullen, Richard G. Frank, Meredith B. Rosenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mullen, Kathleen J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14886.
- NBER working paper series no. w14886
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. We use data from published performance reports of physician medical groups contracting with a large network HMO to compare clinical quality before and after the implementation of P4P, relative to a control group. We consider the effect of P4P on both rewarded and unrewarded dimensions of quality. In the end, we fail to find evidence that a large P4P initiative either resulted in major improvement in quality or notable disruption in care.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2009.
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