National Pay for Performance Summit
February 14 - 16, 2007 • Beverly Hilton • Los Angeles, CA

Pay for performance is an idea whose time has come. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine notes nearly universal agreement among policy-makers that amplification and extension of the use of financial incentives in health care will promote a higher quality of care. Recognizing the efficacy of pay for performance (PFP), many new PFP programs are being adopted across the country and around the globe. Nevertheless, there are skeptics. For example, in his new book, Redefining Healthcare: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Michael Porter argues that PFP initiatives only address process compliance, rather than the quality of results achieved.