Government payment policies tied to hospital performance fail to improve patient safety, study finds
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
Value-based incentive programs (VBIPs) aim to drive improvements in quality and reduce costs by linking financial incentives or penalties to hospital performance. However, a new study has found no evidence these programs had any measurable association with changes in catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates in US hospitals.