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• Is Medicare’s “No Pay for Errors” Plan a Good Idea?

  In this month’s issue of the Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Patient Safety, I (with UCSF’s Adams Dudley and the American Hospital Association's Nancy Foster) tackle this provocative question. The answer may surprise you: yes (probably). The devil Read More... Posted Mon, Feb 11 2008 7:34 AM by Bob Wachter | 2 Comments Filed under: Quality Improvement, Hospital Care, Pay-for-performance, Quality Measurement, Medical Education/Academia, Hospitalists/Hospital Medicine, Patient Safety/Medical Errors, Nurses/Nursing, Media/Press Coverage

• P4P is Dead. Long Live P4P!

  P4P (pay for performance) is all the rage in healthcare. And why not? In the face of the damning evidence that we "get it right" only about half the time, criticizing linking higher payments to better care seems frankly un-American. And there is accumulating Read More... Posted Wed, Sep 12 2007 5:02 PM by Bob Wachter | 1 Comments Filed under: Quality Improvement, Hospital Care, Pay-for-performance, Transparency and Reporting, Health Policy