Care Patterns in Medicare and Their Implications for Pay for Performance
New England Journal of MedicinePublished 14 March 2007Open access
Hoangmai H. Pham, Deborah Schrag, Ann S. O’Malley, Beny Wu, Peter B. Bach
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In fee-for-service Medicare, the dispersion of patients' care among multiple physicians will limit the effectiveness of pay- for-performance initiatives that rely on a single retrospective method of assigning responsibility for patient care.
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In fee-for-service Medicare, the dispersion of patients' care among multiple physicians will limit the effectiveness of pay-for-performance initiatives that rely on a single retrospective method of assigning responsibility for patient care.
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Health ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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