The MA Medicaid Policy Institute has released a new report: “Pay-for-Performance to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care in the Massachusetts Medicaid Program.” Click here for a copy.
The paper reports on the work of an expert roundtable organized in response to a part of Chapter 58, the health care reform law: that future increase in Medicaid hospital rates be in part contingent on quality measures, including measures of the reduction of racial and ethnic disparities. The focus on disparities is new territory for pay-for-performance programs. MMPI assembled the roundtable to make recommendations to MassHealth about design and implementation.
