The design of incentive schemes that improve quality of care is a central issue for the healthcare sector. Nowadays we … impact of financial incentives in Regional and Local Health Authority contracts for primary care in the Italian Region Emilia … contribute to improve quality of care, even when they are not based on the ex-post verification of performances. …

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 … compared to that of two separate control groups, namely: GPs working in districts that grant incentives for the entire period …