BACKGROUND A key consideration in designing pay-for-performance programs is
determining what entity the incentive should be awarded to—individual clinicians or to …

Objective To assess the effect of a physician-specific pay-for-performance program on
quality-of-care measures in a large group practice. Study design In 2007, Palo Alto Medical …

In 2011, Fairview Health Services began replacing their fee-for-service compensation model
for primary care providers (PCPs), which included an annual pay-for-performance bonus …

This article presents the results of a unique quasi-experiment of the effects of a large-scale
pay-for-performance (P4P) program implemented by a leading health insurer in Washington …

The current pay-for-performance movement in health care has continued to evolve despite
the absence of input from physicians and empirical evidence of its effectiveness. The …

Pay-for-performance is being applied at the physician level to stimulate improvements in
quality of care and cost efficiency; however, little is known about how physicians will …

Best practices in team-based incentive design remain underexplored. This study examines
under group-based pay-for-performance, how managers incentivize physicians for …

This study examined the impact of Fairview Health Services' primary care provider
compensation model, in which 40 percent of compensation was based on clinic-level quality …

BACKGROUND Patient experience measures are central to many pay-for-performance
(P4P) programs nationally, but the effect of performance-based financial incentives on …

Background: While administrators of pay-for-performance may have good intentions,
physicians may be reluctant to participate for various reasons, including poor program …