Pediatric pay-for-performance in asthma: who pays?
Pay-for-performance is a term referring to a system that uses incentives to reward health care providers for producing an improvement in performance based on quality measures. It has become part of a growing movement to improve the quality of the health care system. The purpose of this article is to review and discuss pay-for-performance and how it relates to pediatrics and asthma.
Johnson
Rodney
R
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 64108, USA. rmjohnson1@cmh.edu
Dinakar
Chitra
C
D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards