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Arling, Greg; Job, Carol; Cooke, Valerie – Gerontologist, 2009
Purpose: Nursing home pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are intended to maximize the value obtained from public and private expenditures by measuring and rewarding better nursing home performance. We surveyed the 6 states with operational P4P systems in 2007. We describe key features of six Medicaid nursing home P4P systems and make…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Federal Programs, Financial Policy, Evaluation Methods
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Kane, Robert L.; Arling, Greg; Mueller, Christine; Held, Robert; Cooke, Valerie – Gerontologist, 2007
This article describes a pay-for-performance system developed for Minnesota nursing homes. In effect, nursing homes can retain a greater proportion of the difference between their costs and the average costs on the basis of their quality scores. The quality score is a derived and weighted composite measure currently composed of five elements:…
Descriptors: Costs, Report Cards, Quality of Life, Nursing Homes