Intelligence Unit
Special Reports
Special Events
Subscribe
Sponsored
Departments
- Leadership
- Finance
- Technology
- Physicians
- Community Hospitals
- Health Plans
- Marketing
- Quality
- Nursing
- HR
Follow Us
Bonus bucks in medicine
San Diego Union-Tribune, February 27, 2008
Some hospitals report lower infection rates and higher incidents of life-saving procedures for heart attack victims, but a new report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that care evaluations and bonus payments varied greatly, meaning that for some hospitals, the cost of participating in pay-for-performance programs is more than the actual payments it receives from the government.
Most Viewed
Most Emailed
- Primary Care Docs Average More Hospital Revenue Than Specialists
- 69% of Employers Plan to Offer Healthcare Coverage After 2014
- Building a Better Healthcare Board
- Q&A: Catholic Health Initiatives' New Senior VP for Capital Finance
- CMS Seeks to 'Rapidly Reduce' Medicare Spending with $1B in Grants
- Quiet ORs Better for Patient Safety
- CMS Releases Hospital Pricing Data
- Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research: Avoiding Confusion
- Hospital Pricing Data Dump Won't Hurt You, Yet
- Hospital Pricing Irks Nurses; More Jobs, Less Pay
