Study: States Embrace Medicaid Pay-for-Performance

Government Health IT - April 12, 2007

More than half the states were operating Medicaid pay-for-performance programs in the middle of 2006 and nearly all will have them within five years, according to a new study.

Also, more than 70 percent of the planned new programs will start within the next two years, with a shift in emphasis from managed or primary care to environments that stress chronic-disease management even while primary care remains the focus of most Medicaid pay-for-performance programs, the study states.

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