TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mullen,Kathleen J.
AU  - Frank,Richard G.
AU  - Rosenthal,Meredith B.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Can You Get What You Pay For?  Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 2009; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. We use data from published performance reports of physician medical groups contracting with a large network HMO to compare clinical quality before and after the implementation of P4P, relative to a control group. We consider the effect of P4P on both rewarded and unrewarded dimensions of quality. In the end, we fail to find evidence that a large P4P initiative either resulted in major improvement in quality or notable disruption in care
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w14886
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14886
ER  -