Characteristics of hospitals receiving the largest penalties by US pay-for-performance programmes

Jose F Figueroa^{1

2}, David E Wang², Ashish K Jha³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
² Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

Jose F Figueroa et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016 Nov.

. 2016 Nov;25(11):898-900.

doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005040. Epub 2016 Mar 3.

Jose F Figueroa^{1

2}, David E Wang², Ashish K Jha³

¹ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
² Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Health policy; Healthcare quality improvement; Pay for performance; Quality improvement.

Comment in

The multiple aims of pay-for-performance and the risk of unintended consequences.
Friebel R, Steventon A. Friebel R, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016 Nov;25(11):827-831. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005392. Epub 2016 Apr 5. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016. PMID: 27048595 No abstract available.