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
Cunningham Health 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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