title: Performance-based hospital contracting for quality improvement.
abstract: A carefully negotiated process that ties improvements in performance to additional compensation can align incentives and support efforts to improve care. Such a process needs to be objective, data-driven, and focused on issues that are important both to the purchaser and to the provider.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Quality Algorithms, Inc, Blue Bell, PA 19422.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sennett
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Legorreta
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Zatz
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003625:Data Collection; D017722:Hospital Charges; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017008:Negotiating; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014481:United States