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May 20, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
April 29, 2013 | Report
Experts recommend solutions for closing the gaps in quality and efficiency of health care.
April 18, 2013 | Report
The Bipartisan Policy Center recommends ways to contain health care spending while improving the quality and affordability of care.
March 1, 2005 | Program Result
In 2002, the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine sponsored a two-day conference to address policy and management concerns about the quality and cost of health services.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Four organizations planned projects to demonstrate the use of financial incentives to reward providers for delivering high-quality health care.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
In this 1998-2001 project, Terry S. Field, DSc, and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., evaluated how a change in physicians' compensation method in the Fallon Healthcare System correlated with the provision of care for hypertension, diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The success of this nurse-led collaborative underscores the role of nurses in quality improvement.
October 11, 2012 | Issue Brief
"Pay-for-performance" programs are supposed to replace traditional fee-for-service care under the Affordable Care Act. Yet studies show pay-for-performance programs have yielded mixed results.
December 1, 2010 | Report
Policy brief explores differing views on the role of performance measurement in value-based payment.
January 1, 2012 | News Release
A new independent commission, chaired by Dr. Steve Schroeder, former president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will assess how physicians are paid and how pay incentives are linked to patient care.