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How P4P Works
The road to being paid for performance is somewhat convoluted.
By Linda Keslar // Infographic by John Grimwade // Fall 2006
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The Quest for Quality
Pay for performance seems simple: Give doctors financial incentives to improve care. So what’s taking so long?
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Generation Gap
Pay-for-performance could end up penalizing doctors who care for the sickest patients—the elderly.
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Data Sharing: The New Gene Pool
Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit research organization, encourages collaboration and the exchange of ideas among scientists.
Come Together
Massachusetts has been a model of health reform (reform Scott Brown endorsed). Its 2006 plan, a compromise between Republicans and Democrats, has improved access to care while keeping costs well within projections. That’s the real lesson of the recent Senate vote.
The Eight Americas
Universal medical insurance isn’t the golden ticket to universally improved health, warn researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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