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Managed Care February 2007	Quality is Important, But Productivity Rules Despite a rise in the use of quality incentives to determine physician compensation, productivity remains the predominant determinant.
Managed Care April 2007	Physicians Oppose Public Disclosure of Quality Although 3 out of 4 primary care physicians support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, the majority would rather not make quality assessments readily available to the public, according to a recent survey.
Managed Care May 2007 David A. Sparrow	Pay for Performance: As Much About Costs as About Quality You don't really have a true pay-for-performance program if it doesn't say so on the bottom line.
Managed Care December 2006	Compensation Monitor More than half of the nation's HMOs use pay-for-performance programs.
Managed Care February 2005	Different methods used to gauge doc performance Just how physician performance is measured has become more important as P4P programs proliferate.
Managed Care May 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems? Paying incentives to physicians to practice evidence-based medicine appears to be an idea whose time has come. Such programs -- even if successful -- may create a new set of problems.
Managed Care March 2007	Achieving Quality Measures Yields High Bonuses for U.K. Physicians General practitioners in the U.K. make an average of about $108,000 each year, but incentives for improved quality, achieving clinical goals, and better services -- including better appointment systems -- can result in bonuses amounting to $92,000.
HBS Working Knowledge August 13, 2012 Carmen Nobel	When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions New research explores how various compensation incentives affect lending decisions among bank loan officers.
Managed Care August 2004	Free Database Encourages Wide Sharing of Information on Programs' Outcomes Yes, health care is a business, but altruistic plans would like to cooperate with others. The Leapfrog Group has set up a simple mechanism to do this.
Managed Care January 2006	Compensation Monitor A recent poll reveals that doctors distrust pay for performance programs.
Managed Care August 2001	In Calif., Bonuses Based on Quality, Not Cost Savings Blue Cross of California has decided to move away from the traditional managed care incentive of rewarding physicians for controlling medical costs, and instead will implement a program in which physicians receive bonuses for quality of care and patient satisfaction...
Inc. June 2008	Online Nuggets: When Bonuses Backfire As Marc Andreessen notes on blog.pmarca.com, creating a good incentive program is easier said than done.
Managed Care May 2000	Texas-Aetna Incentives Settlement Worries Some Capitated Physicians If the Texas deal ignites a trend away from the use of incentives to keep utilization down, then some capitated physicians worry it will put them in a tight spot.
Entrepreneur March 2006 C.J. Prince	You Be the Judge Are tax incentives to attract businesses unconstitutional?
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
Insurance & Technology August 9, 2010 Nathan Golia	Humana, Athenahealth Partner to Spur EHR Adoption The health insurer joins a growing list of peers providing financial or other incentives to providers to adopt electronic health records.
Food Processing April 2011 Tim Schram	Layering Credits and Incentives for Investment According to this expert, 2011 may be one of the best years in recent memory for food processors to make capital investment.
Managed Care January 2005 Alice G. Gosfield	P4P: Transitional at Best Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs promise a fair shake for provider and insurance plan, but a former chairman of the National Committee for Quality Assurance sees many design flaws to overcome.
Managed Care May 2004	Physician Pay Remains Flat, But Bonuses Rise The increased use of bonuses represents the physician market getting more competitive.
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
Managed Care April 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Health Plans, Employers Join Forces To Promote E-Prescribing The e-prescribing movement is getting some new advocates --employers. Can the combined influence of plans, employers, and the government affect physician buy-in?
Managed Care March 2008	CMS Hybrid Payment System Shows Promise Combining Medicare fee-for-service payments with new incentive programs could help physician groups save money for Medicare and reach quality-of-care targets.
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U.S. Banker August 2008 Anthony Malakian	Service Incentives Reap Big Rewards A well designed and implemented incentive program helps to really give focus to what's important from the bank's perspective to the bank's employees.
Managed Care April 2007 Daniel Y. Patterson	HMO - 21st Century Model The history of HMOs has been one of conflict between plans and physicians. Could global specialty capitation be a better way?
Managed Care June 2007	Docs Don't Exploit Electronic Prescribing While physicians were positive about the basic features of e-prescribing, products often lacked advanced features, or if they had them, physicians often did not use them because of implementation hurdles or their perceptions that the features did not add value.
Managed Care July 2001 Harry L. Leider	HMOs Need To Share Gains of DM Programs Physicians are more likely to buy in if they see better outcomes -- and financial rewards that go with them...
Managed Care May 2006	Physician Disclosure Strengthens Patients' Trust Patients who received a disclosure felt more competent to judge the effect of their physician's compensation on their health care, and nearly a quarter of patients who remembered receiving a disclosure reported that it had increased their trust in their primary care physician.
Managed Care July 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Is Pay for Performance Part of the Cure or the Problem? Paying for performance promises improved quality, reduced cost, and higher income for doctors. So why are some of them worried?
Managed Care September 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Go Carefully When Measuring Quality Gauging and rewarding good work in health care is a noble goal with potentially negative consequences.
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Managed Care July 2007 John Marcille	Perverse Incentives Abound, But Maybe We Can Control Them With all the intellectual capital working on the problem of provider compensation, you'd think perverse incentives would be curbed.
Managed Care November 2007	P4P -- Giving Rewards at the Practice Level Simply implementing a pay-for-performance program isn't enough to result in sustainable improvements in quality of care, according to a study.
Managed Care October 2005	P4P Programs Used To Get Docs Online For both doctors and patients, health information is crucial -- that's what many pay-for-performance programs hopes to promote.
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Managed Care September 2005	Doc Buy-In Needed For EHR Push The government's $75-million, 10-year project to put every American's vital information on electronic health records faces a hurdle long known to health plan officials -- the possible lack of physician buy-in.
CFO June 1, 2004 Ronald Fink	New Carrots, Old Yardsticks? Cash is back in incentive compensation for executives, but companies are struggling to set the right performance targets.
Bank Technology News July 2006 John Adams	HR Management: Automating Pay Incentives is a Bonus New Century and North Fork are finding the benefits in automating work flow and compensation range from lower costs to higher accuracy and transparency.
Managed Care July 2007 R. Knight Steel	Incentives Work Against Proper Elder Care The health care system encourages a reaction to episodes that is both costly and inefficient.
Bank Systems & Technology June 26, 2006 Judy Ward	Creating a More Palatable Carrot Though incentive programs can enhance productivity, when poorly managed, they can be a drain on the enterprise.
Entrepreneur July 2008 Jacquelyn Lynn	Tax Relief Did you know that you could locate your company in an area with a more favorable tax environment? Even if taxation isn't your primary reason for moving, it's certainly a factor you should consider.
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Managed Care November 2007 Lola Butcher	Blues Build on CMS Program To Boost Hospital Quality The insurer throws support behind a pay-for-performance program that promises "stunning" advances in cost-effectiveness.
Managed Care May 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	Following the Leaders Top pay-for-performance programs point to increased focus on hospital incentives, efficiency measures, coordination, and standardization.
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AFP eWire July 6, 2004	Use of Premiums, Freemiums Rises in 2004 Nonprofit organizations have increased the use of donor incentives across most categories during the first quarter of 2004, according to a recent study.
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