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Pay for performance found to have little impact on care quality
American Medical News , 07/28/08
O'Reilly KB et al. - The idea of paying physicians more for providing guideline-based care has taken the American health system by storm in the last decade. Today, more than 150 pay-for-performance programs are centered on the notion that rewarding evidence-based care is key to improving health care quality. But research shows there is a fundamental problem with the P4P programs: They have had little to no impact on quality.
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