Performance-based medicine
Subtitle: creating the high performance network to optimize managed care relationships
By: William J. DeMarco
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439812884
Subjects: Quality Improvement; Health Care Quality Assurance; Managed Care Programs; Incentive Reimbursement; Delivery of Health Care; Organization & administration; Managed care plans (Medical care); Merit pay
Description: "Highlighting quality driven issues and the power behind pay for performance and value-based benefit designs, this book provides the knowledge to establish performance based structures, such as quality measurement, incentive payment structure, and incentive size, within an existing organization. Focusing on how to implement new designs and how to create strategies to measure performance and improve efficiency, it discusses how to create value and optimize payment and market share, and describes the trade off of systems and IT investments by providers and payers to gain incremental quality improvement"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Integration and HMOs : how did we get this so wrong?; title: Performance measurement : a science with no followers; title: Reimbursement : from fee for service to risk adjusters; title: Early pay for performance; title: Performance language and practice; title: Reengineering; title: Challenges; title: International reform; title: Getting started; title: The future of performance-based medicine.