Pay-for-Performance programs offering additional payments to GPs can be used not only to improve the quality of care but also for cost containment purposes. In this paper, we analyse the impact of removing financial incentives in primary care that were aimed at containing hospital expenditure in...

<i> L’offerta privata di servizi ospedalieri in un sistema a finanziamento pubblico: un’analisi empirica </i> (di Gianluca Fiorentini e Cristina Ugolini) - ABSTRACT: The paper investigates the introduction of some contractual elements in the command and control mechanism used in an Italian Region...