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Study: P4P has little effect on quality
Quality Improvement Monitor, August 1, 2008
A new study finds that pay-for-performance has little effect on improving healthcare quality, according to amednews.com.
The most recent study, published in the July/August Health Affairs, compared 81 Massachusetts physician groups eligible for quality incentives with 73 that were not.
The 5,350 physicians analyzed were statistically indistinguishable. Everyone's quality improved, whether or not they stood to earn a bonus, which varied from $200 to $2,500 per quality measure.
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