title: Aligning incentives to promote quality care: lessons from pay-for-performance initiatives.
abstract: Pay-for-performance has been a hot-button topic this year. The federal government, hospitals, private employers, insurers, physician groups, and many others have been looking at numerous ways to align financial incentives with high-quality healthcare. And now, the results are coming in.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States