Pay for Performance
Speakers: Spending on the healthcare industry is currently growing
faster than our nation’s economy, while we are not receiving the
quality of care expected from this investment. Debates over pay for
performance continue primarily because our country does not want to Toxic Skies ipod Deep Red trailer
limit the amount we spend on healthcare and it is difficult to balance
several political agendas without knowing A Priori which one will
work.
Audience: To make this payment scheme work, improvement and
achievement of hospitals and doctors needs to be recognized with
rewards. This means that a small rural hospital can be rewarded for
improving the relative quality of their care, while a large urban
hospital will need to meet an absolute standard level of care before
they are rewarded. Empowering all hospitals, big and small, to improve
through these means is necessary to ensure everyone is involved in
making the U.S. national healthcare system better.
Key Quote: “Realize that the hassles associated with managing a pay
for performance system will only be worth it, if they produce enough Gone download
value to offset these costs.” Robert Galvin
