title: Pay for performance promoted in California.
abstract: The California-based Integrative Healthcare Association (IHA), a collaborative group made up of health plans, physician groups, employers, consumers, and health care systems, last month unveiled a new initiative--called Pay for Performance--that would base physician payments on providing quality care each year and would give consumers comparative data on physician groups.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003256:Community Participation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006123:Group Practice / Q000592:standards; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans / Q000191:economics*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care