title: Pay for performance comes to Medicare in 2009.
abstract: Through a value-based purchasing (VBP) strategy, CMS proposes to transform the Medicare payment system in a way that will reward providers for meeting measures of healthcare quality. The proposed program would condition a specified percentage of hospital payment on performance as described by VBP measures.
authors.affiliation: Medical Learning, Inc, St Paul, Minn, USA.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Charland
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive; D014481:United States