Pay for performance in the inpatient sector: A review of 34 P4P programs in 14 OECD countries

Health Policy 120 (2016) 1125–1140 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Health Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/healthpol Review Pay for performance in the inpatient sector: A review of 34 P4P programs in 14 OECD countries夽 Ricarda... More

Health Policy 120 (2016) 1125–1140 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Health Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/healthpol Review Pay for performance in the inpatient sector: A review of 34 P4P programs in 14 OECD countries夽 Ricarda Milstein a,b,∗ , Jonas Schreyoegg a,b a Universität Hamburg, Germany b Hamburg Center for Health Economics, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Devel- Received 23 April 2016 opment (OECD), pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the Received in revised form 21 August 2016 inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals. This paper provides Accepted 25 August 2016 an overview of 34 existing P4P programs in the inpatient sector in 14 OECD countries based on a structured literature search in five databases to identify relevant sources in Danish, Keywords: English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Less