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Along with many other stakeholders, payers are taking an increasingly active interest in the quality of health care. Simple but effective therapies related to disease prevention, screening, and hospital-based medical care are often substantially underused.^1,2,3 As incentives, payers have implemented a wide range of pay-for-performance programs that reward physicians (or health plans) financially for high rates of compliance with evidence-based guidelines for care (e.g., appropriate use of screening mammography).⁴ In the area of surgery, the wide variation in performance by both hospitals and surgeons suggests similar opportunities for payers to encourage improvements in quality.^5,6,7,8,9

With regard to surgery, however, payers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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