Monday, May 15, 2006

Leapfrog Group - Designing incentives to improve care tools

Tools

The Leapfrog Group offer tools to design, implement, and evaluat financial and nonfinancial incentives to reward hospitals for providing high-quality care.

These tools include:

  • profiles of insurers, purchasers, and employers that have implemented incentive programs
  • models of potential incentives
  • strategies for determining the business case for such programs
  • how to communicate benefits
  • other practical materials