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Pay for performance promoted in California
The Quality Letter for Healthcare Leaders
|May 9, 2002
Insights
The Integrative Healthcare Association (IHA) launched Pay for Performance to link physician payments to quality care. This initiative also aims to provide consumers with comparative data on physician groups.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Health Economics
- Quality Improvement
Background:
- The California-based Integrative Healthcare Association (IHA) is a collaborative group.
- The IHA includes health plans, physician groups, employers, consumers, and health care systems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce a new initiative called Pay for Performance.
- To establish a system for basing physician payments on quality of care.
- To provide consumers with comparative data on physician groups.
Main Methods:
- The initiative was unveiled by the IHA.
- Physician payments will be based on annual quality of care metrics.
- Comparative data on physician groups will be made available to consumers.
Main Results:
- A new initiative, Pay for Performance, has been launched.
- Physician payments will be tied to quality of care.
- Consumers will have access to comparative physician group data.
Conclusions:
- The Pay for Performance initiative aims to incentivize quality care.
- Increased transparency through comparative data may empower consumers.
- This initiative represents a shift towards value-based healthcare payments.
Abstract:
The California-based Integrative Healthcare Association (IHA), a collaborative group made up of health plans, physician groups, employers, consumers, and health care systems, last month unveiled a new initiative--called Pay for Performance--that would base physician payments on providing quality care each year and would give consumers comparative data on physician groups.