Question

Do you think a 2% reduction in payments is sufficient to encourage behavioral changes in the quality of care provided? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Ans) Surely not, as rather than reduction in payment , instead to give pay for performance will enhance quality.

- "Pay-for-performance" is an umbrella term for initiatives aimed at improving the quality, efficiency, and overall value of health care. These arrangements provide financial incentives to hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers to carry out such improvements and achieve optimal outcomes for patients.

- Pay-for-performance has become popular among policy makers and private and public payers, including Medicare and Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act expands the use of pay-for-performance approaches in Medicare in particular and encourages experimentation to identify designs and programs that are most effective.

- This policy brief reviews the background and current state of public and private pay-for-performance initiatives. In theory, paying providers for achieving better outcomes for patients should improve those outcomes, but in actuality, studies of these programs have yielded mixed results. This brief also discusses proposals for making these programs more effective in the future.