While financial incentives for individual physicians resulted in some better outcomes for high blood pressure patients, incentives at the practice level or combined individual- and practice-level ...

To continue a theme I introduced in my last column, the compensation structures for public pension professionals will need a tune-up if we expect them to deliver superior investment returns. The first ...

The CMS's End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model, launched in 2021, aimed to address disparities in transplantation and the use of home dialysis with financial incentives. However, after two ...

(Reuters) - A program to pay hospitals bonuses for hitting key performance measures, or dock them if they miss, failed to improve the health outcomes of patients, according to a large, long-term study ...

In 2002, Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care’s major payor indicated it was only interested in giving increases if they were related to demonstrated value. In response, Advocate Physician ...

At 2 years after implementation of the ETC pay-for-performance model, home dialysis uptake is still slow with patients and providers both reporting barriers. Financial incentives to increase the use ...

In 2022, Oregon’s public pension investments lost 1.55% of their value, the worst performance since the financial crisis in 2008 and one that tacked $6.6 billion on to the system’s already enormous ...