Pioneering hospital pay-for-performance program falls short of its goals, study finds

Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Massachusetts' innovative use of "pay-for-performance" bonuses to try to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the case of Medicaid patients has turned up no evidence of the problem at any of the state's 66 acute-care hospitals, according to a new study that raises questions about the effectiveness of the state's novel approach.

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