Practice Colloquium

Improving Quality Through Incentives Lessons from Model Programs

Incentivizing quality, or "pay-for-performance" (P4P), has received substantial national emphasis over the past several years, but the evidence on what works and what doesn't work regarding improved health care efficiency and outcomes has been mixed. The purpose of this practice colloquium is to review the best available evidence on P4P, particularly with regard to improving the quality of primary versus specialty (neurological) care. Specific models of P4P that have shown the most promise in large health care systems will be emphasized.

FREE and open to all registered attendees.

Upon Completion of this colloquium, participants should be familiar with the P4P methods that do/do not lead to improved health care efficiency/ outcomes; how incentives to improve quality are developed and reimbursed; how measures of quality (indicators) are developed based on evidence and consensus; how P4P may be enhanced by use of electronic health records; the best current examples of P4P; learning how to design the most promising methods of incentives looking to the future; and how neurologists are best able to contribute to P4P efforts.

Lecture/Faculty:

Topic: Practice Management
Core Competencies: Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, Systems-Based Practice
CME Credits: 3.0
Director: Gary M. Franklin, MD, MPH, FAAN, Seattle, WA

• Quality-Based Purchasing: Promise and Pitfalls for Innovation and Health Reform
  R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA, San Francisco, CA


• CMS Pay for Quality: An Update on How Neurologists are Doing
  Mark Levine, MD, Denver, CO


• Best Use of Electronic Records and Performance Measures in the Veterans Affairs Quality Initiative
  Christopher Bever, Jr., MD, MBA, FAAN, Baltimore, MD


• Using Incentives to Improve Outcomes in Washington State Workers Compensation
  Gary M. Franklin, MD, MPH, FAAN, Seattle, WA

Recommended Audience: Practitioners, Fellows, Residents, Nurses.
This program offers BASIC and ADVANCED knowledge.