High Quality Care and Ethical Pay-for-performance: A Society of General Internal Medicine Policy Analysis
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High Quality Care and Ethical Pay-for-performance: A Society of General Internal Medicine Policy Analysis
| Title: | High Quality Care and Ethical Pay-for-performance: A Society of General Internal Medicine Policy Analysis |
| Author: |
Paasche-Orlow, Michael K.; Farber, Neil J.; Sinsky, Christine; Rucker, Lisa; Rask, Kimberly J.; Figaro, M. Kathleen; Braddock, Clarence; Sulmasy, Daniel P.; Wharam, James Franklin; Barry, Michael John
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| Citation: | Wharam, J. Frank, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Neil J. Farber, Christine Sinsky, Lisa Rucker, Kimberly J. Rask, M. Kathleen Figaro, Clarence Braddock, Michael J. Barry, and Daniel P. Sulmasy. 2009. High quality care and ethical pay-for-performance: a society of general internal medicine policy analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine 24(7): 854-859. |
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| Abstract: | BACKGROUND: Pay-for-performance is proliferating, yet its impact on key stakeholders remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE: The Society of General Internal Medicine systematically evaluated ethical issues raised by performance-based physician compensation. RESULTS: We conclude that current arrangements are based on fundamentally acceptable ethical principles, but are guided by an incomplete understanding of health-care quality. Furthermore, their implementation without evidence of safety and efficacy is ethically precarious because of potential risks to stakeholders, especially vulnerable patients. CONCLUSION: We propose four major strategies to transition from risky pay-for-performance systems to ethical performance-based physician compensation and high quality care. These include implementing safeguards within current pay-for-performance systems, reaching consensus regarding the obligations of key stakeholders in improving health-care quality, developing valid and comprehensive measures of health-care quality, and utilizing a cautious evaluative approach in creating the next generation of compensation systems that reward genuine quality. |
| Published Version: | doi://10.1007/s11606-009-0947-3 |
| Other Sources: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695523/pdf/ |
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