New Study Challenges Conventional Wisdom on Pay-for-Performance Incentive Programs

"RWJF Investigator tests impact of incentives for clinicians, and draws conclusions with implications for health reform.

"...Two new studies by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Investigator Award in Health Policy Research recipient R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA, and colleagues suggest that for incentives to be effective, they must be carefully targeted and designed.

"Dudley's two studies were published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The first tests the effectiveness of incentives for small medical practices that have implemented electronic health records (EHRs). The second focuses on how incentives should be distributed to achieve maximum effect—to individual clinicians, to their practices, or to both...."

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