Quality-based payment in health care
Subtitle: Theory and practice
Contributors: McGuire, Thomas; Rosenthal, Meredith; Chandra, Amitabh
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: Quality-based payment in healthcare—also known as pay-for-performance—is a popular policy intervention aimed at improving healthcare quality. However, there has been little theoretical work characterizing the underlying quality problem or the interaction between pay-for-performance and existing payment mechanisms. Furthermore, there is little empirical evidence that pay-for-performance has a substantial effect on healthcare quality.
Notes: Keywords: Health care quality, Pay-for-performance, Payment incentives.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013