These initiatives included pay-for-quality programs, risk-sharing agreements, and bundled-payment plans.
The Ryan-Brady plan did include "pay-fors," including a proposed "border adjustment" tax that would favor exports and discourage imports.
Efforts to improve health worker motivation have focused on financial incentives, including pay-for-performance [ 17, 18], particularly since wages for health workers tend to be low [ 4].
Performance-based financing including pay-for-performance, performance-based incentives, results-based financing, or CCTs have increased access and utilization of MNH services [ 147].
Professionals are reluctant to engage in quality improvement initiatives perceived as ineffective or even harmful [ 10], including pay-for-performance schemes misaligned with professional values [ 1, 6, 11- 13].
30 31 The formation of family health units with contracts that include pay-for-performance targets for preventive services may have had a positive impact in the implementation of preventive services.
Many European countries therefore have adopted large scale programs for improving cardiovascular risk management, including pay-for-performance in the United Kingdom, disease management in Germany and practice accreditation in the Netherlands [ 15].
Some of the bribes included paying for travel arrangements for doctors to attend medical conferences, a common practice throughout the industry.
His dance with the welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya during the early nineties included paying for De La Hoya's mother's chemotherapy, and, later, for her funeral.
Mr. Dolan said the support group was part of what he called a multifaceted approach that included paying for individual counseling for victims, beginning three years ago.
The agreement over the property, apparently aimed at avoiding scandal before the mayoral elections, included paying for rubbish collection, council tax and any damage caused by the occupants.
