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 will be in the details.I hope you’ll have a chance to read the full article (the Joint ...

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 evidence that P4P may work. A study earlier this year by my friend Peter Lindenauer ...