Lessons Learned From a National Pay-for-Performance Program
(1/30/2007) HCT Project Volume 4
By Francois de Brantes, Bridges To Excellence
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Pay for performance has finally come of age in healthcare. The Bridges To Excellence programs have
identified 10 key ingredients to a successful program.
When selecting performance measures for a program,
employers and plans should always default to measures
adopted by the National Quality Forum to ensure consistency
with other programs such as the Ambulatory Care Quality
Alliance. However, all measures are not created equal, and
findings from experiments in pay for performance in
England are consistent with BTE’s that intermediate outcomes
should be weighted more heavily than process measures.
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