Will physician grants work in P4P programs?

The St. Paul Pioneer Press has an editorial that spells out the pros and cons of pay for performance systems as they see it.

The author of the editorial, Craig Westover, spoke with St. Paul, university professor, practicing family physician and bioethicist Dr. David Satin, who is giving a talk Nov. 16 titled “Ethical Issues in Pay for Performance.” Satin suggest an alternative model, one which pays doctors with grants, to those currently being proposed and implemented.

Among the many incarnations of pay for performance, Satin discusses a grant approach that makes intriguing market sense because it aligns the moral and social incentives of doctors to provide good individual care with economic incentive to do so.

Mixing money, morals for better health [via The Pioneer Press]

Bookmark to:

From Medical Economics magazine, more on P4P ...

Permalink