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Issues and Challenges in Measuring and Improving the Quality of Health Care: Working Paper 2017-10

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Various stakeholders have made significant efforts to measure and improve health care quality, spurred by landmark reports issued over a decade ago that highlighted serious deficiencies. Most payers now require providers of care to report on aspects of quality as a way to measure their performance and hold them accountable for it. The most common types of initiatives to measure and improve health care quality are public reporting programs and pay-for-performance programs. Under public reporting programs, providers’ performance on quality measures is publicly disseminated to

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  • Congressional Budget Office, 2017. "Issues and Challenges in Measuring and Improving the Quality of Health Care: Working Paper 2017-10," Working Papers 53387, Congressional Budget Office.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbo:wpaper:53387
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    1. Mili Mehrotra & Karthik V. Natarajan, 2020. "Value of Combining Patient and Provider Incentives in Humanitarian Health Care Service Programs," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 29(3), pages 571-594, March.

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    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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