Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
www.amcp.org
America's Health Insurance Plans
www.ahip.org
National Committee for Quality Assurance
www.ncqa.org
According to the Institute of Medicine, a report called Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, “analyzes the promise and risks of instituting a pay-for-performance program within Medicare to encourage a more effective health care system. Although focused on Medicare, this report also has significant implications for payers and purchasers in the private sector.
Download Report
Ian Morrison and guest speaker, Tom Williams, recommend an article by Meredith Rosenthal, et al, “Pay for Performance in Commercial HMOs” that was recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine. An abstract of the article is available here.
Pay 4 Performance White Paper
For more information, visit the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy at:
http://www.amcp.org/data/legislative/analysis/partD_pricing.pdf
or
http://www.acmp.org
To read the proposed legislation, click on:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/110/HR4asintroduced.pdf