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The microeconomics of incentives for health care quality, examining both rewards for good quality and penalties for poor performance.

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The findings that a continuous marginal return for performance improvement is far more effective in obtaining goals than a reward for meeting a fixed goal contains important advice for structuring regulatory programs.

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This page is a summary of: Regulation, Financial Incentives, and the Production of Quality, American Journal of Medical Quality, July 2007, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1062860607300564.
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