Pay-for-performance for hospitals

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 16:22 in Health & Medicine

Pay-for-performance initiatives - in which health care providers are rewarded with more funds for meeting clinical targets - have been adopted in the UK and Australia. The approach has been piloted in the US by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is responsible for government-sponsored health insurance.

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