What are we committing to related to incentives for providers? How would proposed standardization affect existing pay-for-performance programs?
There are a variety of ways that employers can introduce pay-for-performance or other incentives. They can partner with health insurance plans to adopt high performance network strategies that encourage beneficiaries to use the providers with the highest quality and lowest cost. Employers can also partner with health insurance plans to provide direct financial incentives and/or public recognition to providers who demonstrate superior performance. It is also important that employers support the programs the health insurance plans they contract with develop. There are also ways to design pay-for-performance programs to encourage the adoption of electronic health records and health information exchange to better coordinate patient care and automate quality measurement and reporting.
