Financial incentives alone have never proven to be long-term, effective solutions to health-care reform. |
We can all agree that performance needs to change. The question is what do we pay for - the infrastructure or the outcome? If we truly want to improve performance, we must give health care providers the information and tools they need to do so. Financial incentives alone have never proven to be long-term, effective solutions to health care reform. Changing the actual behavior of physicians and other providers, on the other hand, is and we must find a way to do that. |