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California pay-for-performance results show improvements in healthcare quality

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 2nd, 2005

The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a California healthcare leadership group, has released performance data for the second measurement year of its statewide Pay for Performance (P4P) program.

The results show gains in each of the evidence-based measures the program uses to assess the performance of over 35,000 physicians in 225 medical groups. The across-the-board gains are a promising sign of better care for the more than 6.2 million commercial HMO enrollees whose health plans participate in the program.

IHA's P4P program is the largest in the country to provide medical groups with incentive payments based upon performance against quality...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-08-02)

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