Study: Pay for Performance Could Save Lives, Money
By Stacy Lawrence |
Posted 08-31-2006
Some initial results from the CMS demonstration project of pay-for-performance show that enforcing a higher quality of care for just five major illnesses and procedures could have saved almost 6,000 lives and $1.35 billion in hospital costs in 2004.
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