Hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) looks better on paper than it has to date in practice, but Ashish K. Jha, M.D., believes it’s still salvageable with the right approach.
In a piece for JAMA, Jha, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, surveyed the mixed evidence gleaned to date from pay-for-performance (P4P) healthcare programs fostered in part by the Affordable Care Act.
