Health Economics Research Profile
Economic Incentives to Improve Quality
Evaluating Pay for Performance
A project to evaluate the Integrated Healthcare Association's Pay for Performance program, aimed at providing quality-based financial incentives and public recognition to physician organizations in California.
Contact: Cheryl Damberg, PhD (Cheryl_Damberg@rand.org)Aligning Incentives with High-Quality Care
A project to evaluate the design, implementation, and outcomes of Wellpoint's Rewarding Results program to determine whether the incentives resulted in improvements in quality.
Contact: Cheryl Damberg, PhD (Cheryl_Damberg@rand.org)Value-Based Purchasing Strategies for Medicare
A study using categories for grouping commercial episode to generate episodes for a given condition over a period of time in order to examine episode characteristics for patients with different levels of comorbidity, various attribution rules for assigning responsibility to providers for different clinical events and conditions, and the implications for tying performance measurement to episodes of care.
Contact: Cheryl Damberg, PhD (Cheryl_Damberg@rand.org) or Melony Sorbero, PhD (Melony_Sorbero@rand.org)
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