Physician Groups in California Pay-for-Performance Program Making Slow Progress Toward Higher Quality Care

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Physician groups in the California Integrated Healthcare Association’s (IHA) pay-for-performance (P4P) program are responding to the program by making practice changes and altering how they compensate physicians to reward quality, but health plans and purchasers say that based on improvements that occurred during the first three years of the program, those investments have not yet translated into substantial gains in quality. Health plans and purchasers hoped to close the gap in performance in California and the 90% percentile performance nationally on the quality indicators used in the P4P . . .