The Second Annual National Pay for Performance Summit Explores New Models for Rewarding Performance
National Pay for Performance Summit:
Can a new payment concept and unique implementation design reform and revolutionize the health care system? The Prometheus — Paying for Excellence program proposed by Prometheus Payment, Inc. uses new design factors — including case rates based on clinical guidelines and severity adjustments; a performance scorecard that encourages clinical integration around the care of the whole patient; and a design that can accommodate a wide range of providers and levels of integration — in order to address, mitigate, or solve problems with the current system.
Do gainsharing arrangements, under which a hospital agrees to share cost savings with a physician or medical group to the extent that their practice patterns reduce the hospital’s costs, encourage efficiencies in hospital patient care?
Will the new pay for performance programs in Medicare that reward doctors who fulfill established guidelines change physician behavior, improve quality, and achieve cost savings?
Whether these new models will be effective in rewarding performance, aligning incentives, and ultimately improving quality in health care will be explored in Mini-Summit I at the National Pay for Performance Summit at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, February 14-16. These timely issues will be tackled by key industry leaders:
Francois de Brantes, Chair; National Coordinator of Bridges to Excellence
Robert S. Galvin, MD, Director, Global Health Care, General Electric Co.
Alice G. Gosfield, Esq., Principal, Alice G. Gosfield & Associates
Sam Ho, MD, Executive VP and Chief Medical Officer, PacifiCare Health Plans
James Robinson, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley
Steve Shortell, PhD, Dean, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley
The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) is again sponsoring the second annual National Pay for Performance Summit at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, February 14-16. Building on the success of last year’s Summit, which attracted more than 800 healthcare leaders from 35 states and six countries, the goals of the 2007 Summit are to continue the ongoing national policy debate on the appropriate role and structure of pay for performance (P4P), and to address issues such as efficiency, physician and nurse engagement, Medicare, and the role that state and federal government play in pay for performance. Additionally, this year the Summit will consider how hospitals and health systems fit into the P4P puzzle, strategic alternatives in the design of payment incentives, and using incentives as a lever for IT, patient safety, and medical error reduction. The 2006 Summit received enthusiastic feedback, and an equally successful meeting is anticipated for the 2007 Summit. For more information and to view the complete agenda, please go to www.pfpsummit.com. You may register on-line or download a registration form at http://www.pfpsummit.com/registration.html.