Aligning Physician Incentives for Shared Risk and Reward Across the Healthcare Continuum

Summary: Money may talk, but after 14 years of administering pay for performance (PFP) programs for its providers and specialists, HealthPartners has figured out what motivates physicians even more than financial incentives. Babette Apland, HealthPartners senior vice president of health and care management, shares this insight, as well as the measures by which HealthPartners evaluates pharmacies and specialists in its PFP program. Apland shared how HealthPartners is aligning physician incentives and shared savings with PFP programs and a total cost of care initiative during "Aligning Physician Incentives for Shared Risk and Reward Across the Healthcare Continuum," a 45-minute webinar on March 2, 2011.