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

BMJ Qual Saf. 2016 Nov;25(11):898-900. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005040. Epub 2016 Mar 3.

Authors

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.

PMID: 26939872
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005040

No abstract available

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

MeSH terms

Hospital Bed Capacity / statistics & numerical data
Hospitals / standards*
Hospitals, Teaching / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Medicare / statistics & numerical data
Ownership
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Reimbursement, Incentive / statistics & numerical data*
Residence Characteristics
Safety-net Providers / statistics & numerical data
Socioeconomic Factors
United States