The study showed hospitals with more poor patients had a lower baseline performance than did those with fewer poor patients. After three years of financial incentives, hospitals with more poor patients had caught up in performance for acute myocardial infarcation, pneumonia and congestive heart failure, while hospitals with more poor patients that did not receive incentives continued to lag.
The study looked at 251 hospitals that participated in the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration program and a national sample of 3,017 hospitals.
Read the abstract of “The Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospitals That Serve Poor Patients.”
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