Economic Incentives in Pay-for-Performance Programs.

The article titled "Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Values Quality over QALYs" discusses the approach taken by Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program in evaluating the quality of healthcare provided by hospitals. The program focuses on measuring and rewarding hospitals based on their performance in specific areas such as heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. The article presents a graph (Figure 2) that compares the average scores for these conditions. [Extracted from the article]

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