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Insurance and Medicare Articles on other websites: Click here for articles on Ethical Health Partnership site. I have tried to divide this into subjects, but many articles cover multiple topics. PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE Pay-for-Performance is the linking of financial incentives to quality and efficiency measures determined by insurance companies or Medicare -- sometimes with and sometimes without the input of physicians and other healthcare professionals. Medicare is designing programs as an effort to cut costs. Private insurance companies are doing the same. Our Submission to the House Ways & Means Committee Hearing on the Pay-for-Performane Proposal Pay for Performance Survey American College of Physician Executives survey. If you scroll down, you can read unedited comments from those taking the survey. The articles listed at the top have some important information. The Dark Side of P4P American College of Physician Executives journal article by David Ollier Weber. Gives examples of negative fallout on physicians and patients from UnitedHealthcare's attempt at pay-for-performance program. Also raises essential questions to design a fair pay-for-performance program.     © Dawn Lipthrott, Ethical Health Partnerships, 2005     www.ethicalhealthpartnerships.org (May be copied and distributed as long as this identifying information is retained on copies.) TAKE ACTION! JOIN US IN ISSUING THE CALL TO ETHICAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS!