BTE in the News

CIGNA Joins Major Employers in Groundbreaking Health Care Quality Initiative; Effort to Take Place in Greater Phoenix Area - PRNewswire-FirstCall - February 16, 2005.

Improving Care, Lowering Costs - The Post and Courier (KRTBN) - February 15, 2005.

Bridges to Excellence gives out awards in Boston - Modern Physician - December 3, 2004.

Professionalism Reconsidered: Physician Payment In A Small-Practice Environment
CunninghamHealth Affairs, Vol 23, Issue 6, 36-47, 2004

HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance Launch Pay-For-Performance Initiative... Local Doctors are Rewarded for Better Patient Care - PR Newswire - September 15th, 2004.

Bridges to Excellence effort launches new reward program, adds fourth metro area...New effort to help doctors fund IT investments; physicians in New York's Capital District now eligible; first reward checks issued in Boston. - Wall Street Journal- May 26, 2004.

New England Journal of Medicine – Vol. 350, #4, January 2004

Journal of Quality Health Care – Vol. 2, #4, October-December 2003

Harvard Business School – Case Study #N9-604-030, September 2003

Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management – Vol. 10, #8, August 2003

Journal for Healthcare Quality – Vol. 25, #2, March/April 2003

Employers to pay physicians for quality care...Bridges to Excellence, a program doctors helped develop, is one of the biggest corporate pushes to increase quality and decrease costs. - AMNews- April 28, 2003.

Bonuses: For doctors - The Cincinnati Enquirer- April 21, 2003.

Coalition Launches Physician Pay-for-Performance Initiative - Advocacy Weekly - April 14, 2003.

Project rewards docs for reforms - Area's role in study: Diabetes treatment - The Cincinnati Enquirer- April 12, 2003.

A New Way to Get Doctors to Take Better Care of Patients: Bribe Them - Wall Street Journal - April 10, 2003.

Coalition of Top Companies, Health Groups to Launch Physician IT Initiative - Superior Consultant Company - April 10, 2003

U.S. doctors earn reward for top care ...Program will pay physicians extra for health gains - Associated Press - April 10, 2003.

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