Linking performance with payment: Implementing the physician value-based payment modifier

JAMA

Volumn 308, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2089-2090

  VanLare, Jordan M ^a,b   Blum, Jonathan D ^a   Conway, Patrick H ^a,c  

^a CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CONTRACT; COST CONTROL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONALISM; REWARD; SHORT SURVEY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VOLUNTARY REPORTING;

EID: 84869753450     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.14834     Document Type: Short Survey

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