Austin Frakt, writing in the New York Times on the role that hospital boards can and should play in improving quality at hospitals, references a 2014 JAMA article on non-profit CEO compensation which concludes by explaining that CEO… Read More

Value Based Purchasing (VBP) is the program CMS uses to financially reward and punish hospitals based on the quality of the care the hospitals provide and their ability to cut costs.  Two stories from Kaiser Health News highlight… Read More

Aaron Carroll, a pediatrics professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, writing for the New York Times’ health blog, TheUpshot, has a problem with pay-for-performance, noting that it is meeting with mixed results and some fear that… Read More