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Pay-for-Performance Programs in the Private Sector

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There are more than 110 pay-for-performance (P4P) programs in the United States today. Most of these programs reward doctors for improving the quality of care being delivered or the processes by which care is delivered. Other programs reward hospitals, whereas a handful of programs attempt to reward hospitals and doctors for undertaking P4P programs together. In most cases, the payments being made serve as bonuses because the doctors and the hospitals are not placed at risk for losing any of the fees being paid to them for delivering the required care. These bonuses take the form of cash lump-sum bonuses, . . . [Click for More]