Pay-for-Performance Programs May Worsen Disparities in Care and Access

As provider pay-for-performance (P4P) programs proliferate across the country, data accumulates that gives critics of pay-for-performance some ammunition to back their concerns. Earlier this year, Modern Healthcare reported on some detrimental findings about pay-for-performance programs on disparities in care and access to care. Modern Healthcare’s article was titled “An Uneven Paying Field”  and revealed that a number of 2007 and 2008 studies suggest that pay-for-performance...
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