pay for performance – Marion R. Sills, MD, MPH

In an article released by JAMA Pediatrics today, my co-authors and I show that social determinants of health (patient factors such as health insurance, poverty and other sociodemographic measures) are risk factors for readmissions-related penalties for children’s hospitals. Without adjusting pay-for-performance (P4P) measures for social determinants of health (SDH), hospitals may receive penalties partially related to patient SDH factors beyondContinue reading “Social determinants of health and pay-for-performance readmissions measures”