Incentivizing appropriate prescribing in primary care: Development and first results of an electronic health record-based pay-for-performance scheme

Lotte Ramerman, Karin Hek, Christine Cramer- van der Welle, Ellis Simons-Winters, Anouk Middelweerd, Anke Lambooij and Robert Verheij

Health Policy, 2022, vol. 126, issue 10, 1010-1017

Abstract: Part of the funding of Dutch General Practitioners (GPs) care is based on pay-for-performance, including an incentive for appropriate prescribing according to guidelines in national formularies. Aim of this paper is to describe the development of an indicator and an infrastructure based on prescription data from GP Electronic Health Records (EHR), to assess the level of adherence to formularies and the effects of the pay-for-performance scheme, thereby assessing the usefulness of the infrastructure and the indicator.

Keywords: Pay-for-performance; Primary care; Medication; Electronic health records; Formularies; General practitioner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.07.004

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