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Extending P4P

PROLOGUE

Extending The Pay-For-Performance Agenda

On 18 August 2007 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that starting in October 2008, Medicare would no longer pay hospitals for preventable errors. The CMS’s declaration follows years of research demonstrating the high cost and prevalence of medical errors, the widespread variation in treatment costs and outcomes across U.S. hospitals, and a drumbeat of calls for quality improvement and payment for performance.

For a generation, John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. Thomson Chair in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and a professor of medicine and of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, and his colleagues at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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