Will pay-for-performance and quality reporting affect health care disparities? Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Pay-for-performance (P4P) and public quality-reporting programs can increase the quality of health care for the services being measured. However, unless carefully designed, these programs may have the unintended consequence of increasing racial and ethnic disparities. This paper describes ways in which P4P and public reporting programs may increase disparities and suggests ways in which programs might be designed that will make them likely to reduce, or at least not increase, disparities.

publication date

  • April 10, 2007

Research

keywords

  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care
  • Reimbursement Mechanisms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 34248509111

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1377/hlthaff.26.3.w405

PubMed ID

  • 17426053

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 26

issue

  • 3