Real-time Feedback in Pay-for-Performance: Does More Information Lead to Improvement?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pay-for-performance (P4P) has been used expansively to improve quality of care delivered by physicians. However, to what extent P4P works through the provision of information versus financial incentives is poorly understood.

Objective

To determine whether an increase in information feedback without changes to financial incentives resulted in improved physician performance within an existing P4P program.

Intervention/exposure

Implementation of a new registry enabling real-time feedback to physicians on quality measure performance.

Design

Observational, predictive piecewise model at the physician-measure level to examine whether registry introduction associated with performance changes. We used detailed physician quality measure data 3 years prior to r

SUBMITTER: Bond AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712150 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature