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Cost Control Incentives for Doctors, Hospitals Don't Affect Patient Outcomes when Quality Variables Are Implemented
Findings from a 4-year study suggest that pay for performance (P4P) incentive programs help reduce costs without impacting complications and death rates from major surgeries when quality care variables are implemented.
The researchers, formed from a group of hospitals in New York City, presented their findings at the 2011 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.
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Sources: American College of Surgeons; Newswise
Impact of Medicaid Institution for Mental Diseases Exclusion on Serious Mental Illness Outcomes
December 17th 2025Medicaid’s Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) rule bars federal funding for psychiatric facilities with more than 16 beds, but findings indicate that state waivers allowing treatment of serious mental illness in IMDs do not increase overall psychiatric hospitalizations.
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