84 pages. Excerpt: "Our report highlights some of the most innovative approaches that regional and national health insurance plans have taken to advance quality of care and efficiency through the recognition and reward of physicians and hospitals for achieving national benchmarks, demonstrating outstanding performance, and making measurable improvements over time. Some involve rewarding physicians for making structural changes such as adopting electronic health record systems. Others involve rewarding practitioners for measuring and reporting on improved patient care, such as, by more actively monitoring and coordinating care for patients with chronic illnesses. Some of the programs described here focus on physicians, while others focus on hospitals. Many involve multi-stakeholder collaborations."

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