Hospitals’ Strategies to Reduce Costs and Improve Quality: Survey of Hospital Leaders
Hospitals pursue a broad range of efforts to improve quality, with those participating in bundled payments attempting to reduce postacute care to a greater degree than nonparticipants.
The Impact of Pay-for-Performance on Quality of Care for Minority Patients
This study finds no evidence of a deleterious impact of pay-for-performance on minority patients in the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration.
Quality Monitoring and Management in Commercial Health Plans
This survey of 252 HMOs found that almost all measure their performance on multiple indicators of quality and most use these data in quality improvement activities.
