“Pay-for-Performance (P4P) has been a compensation model increasingly used to reward physicians and healthcare organizations for achieving specific health-quality goals. Medicare (CMS) has developed a set of criteria (PQRI) designed to reward individual physicians and practices who achieve high marks on a set of metrics for Medicare patients (in addition to fee-for-service payments). Similarly, private HMO insurers have used a similar set of criteria (HEDIS) to reward physicians taking care of their HMO patients.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 24 September 2009
