Pay for Performance at the Tipping Point

It is hard to dispute the rationale behind realigning payment incentives in health care to encourage higher quality and more efficient care. Indeed, across the country and beyond, the number of “pay for performance” programs, as such realignment is called, has reached a tipping point. In the United...

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