Medicare is the primary source of health insurance for the elderly and disabled in the United
States (US), and so it is by far the largest payer in the US health care system accounting for …

The third installment in the Pathways to Quality Health Care series, Rewarding Provider
Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, continues to address the timely topic of the …

Over the course of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services--Premier Hospital Quality
Incentive Demonstration, which ended last year and serves as a partial template for …

This paper examines the impact that Medicare pay-for-performance (P4P) might have upon
hospital payment. It uses the initial two quarters of a national quality database to model …

Growing national attention to improving quality and patient safety is spurring development of
quality-based financial incentives for physicians and hospitals. Health plans in particular are …

As evidenced by recent testimony from both the US Office of Budget and Management
Director Peter Orszag (2009) and the American Hospital Association (2008), the imperative …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended by the Health Care
Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively “Healthcare Reform”) will …

Since 1977, the State of Maryland in the United States (US) has operated a unified
prospective hospital payment system in which all payers–public and private–pay the same …

Chairman Pitts, Ranking Member Pallone, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee,
thank you for inviting me here today. My name is Cheryl Damberg and I am a senior health …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 creates several new
Medicare programs intended to improve health care quality, using “pay-for-performance” …