Question

Discuss the following from the perspective of a provider:

Read the following article: Health Policy Brief

Define pay for performance and assess its use as a quality measure in managed care systems.

Provide an example for each of the 4 categories of pay for performance measurement.

Choose one of the four payment programs in this article and evaluate its use as it relates to pay for performance using one more outside resource in your review.

Note that there are several resources located in this article reference list that can be expanded on for this assignment.

Justify your responses using examples.

Answer 1

The Answer include Introduction with Its Quality Measure like Calibration of the system, Merit Engagement for the Pay for Performance System along with Its various Category:

Pay for Performance in Health care System
Introduction and Its quality Measure: It is very important component which brings competitive environment in Health care system organization by creating Pay for performance Model, It gives the model for quality measure and performance focused system within the company, It is considered as more Crucial, Matured and Justified approach for the compensation payment to the employee, It also drives talent utilization and employee engagement, However very few organization can implement this system because it needs extensive care during implementation and even it may have lot of negative consequences because of poor implementation, Many organization across the world, they linked their remuneration system with creating competitive advantages and Quality outcome, Payment procedure, In many countries like USA, UK, New Zealand, they supported their health care system with focusing on Federal and private incentive program and Reward distribution, Paying for compensation created increased attention because of this employee focused on fulfilling both qualitative and quantitative goal,
Category Description with examples: It has category like qualitative Performance : here, payment done based on the Quality served or delivered, quality always important factors in managing care system, cause Patients or Customer go though severe phases so needs proper attention from employee of Care system, and it is related to Customer experience and outcome, For Example American college of Physicians want to implement strategy related to Qualitative Performance system which will further take care their patients and monitor the customer satisfaction Quantitative Performance –Quantitative outcome can drive the business in higher direction to meet financial objective of the organization, so Pay for Quantitative performance along with maintaining Quality, it takes very important role in health care system, For example, company now a day’s set performance standards and measures along with projected delivery, which needs to be fulfilled subject to pay for performance bonus	Category Description with examples: Other Category like here Pay for Performances can be met by putting following Incentive programs – Individual Incentives Merit Pay Individual Spot awards Lump sum Bonuses, People not only get monetary recognition also they are rewarded and promoted , along with given some extra responsibilities because of their good current performance, For example Many care system want to prevent medication error which needs highly engagement of employee and the communication, reporting system, so delivering the result with less or no error will create high level of csat score finally customer feedback will rate the system high create another angle of trust within the organization and patient circle, Further any activity start from Process improvement where employee are engaged needs feedback about the processes and system from board, supervisor along with the customer circle which will create a positive buzz in the system