Purchasers Are Using Efficiency
Metrics In Several Ways
- Public reporting—information to help consumers make more cost-conscious decisions
- Pay-for-performance—financial rewards to providers with better performance
- Tiering—differential co-payments to encourage patients to choose higher performing providers
- Selective contracting—contracts limited to providers who perform at a certain level
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