Performance-Based Contracts For Vocational Rehabilitation Shortened Time To Employment

After Indiana switched from fee-for-service to performance-based contracting for its vocational rehabilitation program in late 2006, employment results improved and the time to employment dropped. Consumers served by the vocational rehabilitation program under performance-based contracting were 1.5 times more likely to find employment. However, performance-based contracting for vocational rehabilitation services had little impact on employment quality, as indicated by working hours and wages.

These findings were reported in “The Performance of Performance-Based Contracting in Human Services: A Quasi-Experiment” by Jiahuan Lu. The researcher sought to evaluate the effectiveness of performance-based contracting . . .