The results show that evidence on the efficiency of P4P is scarce and inconclusive. P4P efficiency could not be demonstrated. The small number and variability of included studies limit the strength of our conclusions. More research addressing P4P efficiency is needed. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012

The United States health care system performs poorly on many key objectives, and enhancing the system is at the top of the policy agenda. Improving the payment methods used to compensate and reward physicians could go a long way toward creating a more high-performing health care system. This...

Public and private payers are developing hospital care pay for performance (P4P) initiatives as part of a broader national movement to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care services. These initiatives augment or reduce payments to a hospital on the basis of its performance on...

When implementing a pay for performance (P4P) scheme, designers must decide to whom the nancial incentive for performance should be directed. This paper compares department level hospital reported performance on the Danish Case Management Scheme at hospitals that did and did not redistribute...

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This paper extends Farrell and Shapiro (1990) and Levin (1990) by providing necessary and sufficient conditions for horizontal mergers to be both profitable and welfare-enhancing when market demand and firms¡¯ costs are linear. We show that profitable, welfare-enhancing mergers are likely to...