System and Method for a Patient-Specific and Clinician-Specific Pay-For-Performance Management System
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1. A system for pay for performance for care of a patient by one or more physician who care for the patient, the system comprising:
- a health record containing information about a patient, one or more physicians associated with the patient and a medical history of the patient;
a pay for performance gateway having a rules matrix with a plurality of guidelines wherein each guideline associates a care option for care of a patient with a pay for performance incentive and generator unit that generates a patient specific guideline list for the one or more physicians associated with a particular patient based on the medical history of the particular patient and rules matrix; and
one or more physician units, wherein each physician unit has a pay for performance unit that is configured to, display the patient specific guideline list for the particular patient and permit the physician to indicate that the care option contained in the patient specific guideline list has been performed wherein the physician is incentivized to provide the care option based on the pay for performance incentive.
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Abstract
A pay for performance system and method are described in which doctors of a patient are compensated based on the work performed for the patient using incentives that are insurer-specific, patient-specific, and visit-specific.
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1. A system for pay for performance for care of a patient by one or more physician who care for the patient, the system comprising:
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a health record containing information about a patient, one or more physicians associated with the patient and a medical history of the patient; a pay for performance gateway having a rules matrix with a plurality of guidelines wherein each guideline associates a care option for care of a patient with a pay for performance incentive and generator unit that generates a patient specific guideline list for the one or more physicians associated with a particular patient based on the medical history of the particular patient and rules matrix; and one or more physician units, wherein each physician unit has a pay for performance unit that is configured to, display the patient specific guideline list for the particular patient and permit the physician to indicate that the care option contained in the patient specific guideline list has been performed wherein the physician is incentivized to provide the care option based on the pay for performance incentive. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for pay for performance for care of a patient by one or more physician who care for the patient in a system that has an electronic health record containing information about a patient, one or more physicians associated with the patient and a medical history of the patient, the method comprising:
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associating, in a rules matrix in a pay for performance gateway having a plurality of guidelines, each guideline for a care option for care of a patient with a pay for performance incentive; generating a patient specific guideline list for the one or more physicians associated with a particular patient based on the medical history of the particular patient and rules matrix; displaying the patient specific guideline list for a physician who is currently caring for the specific patient; and crediting the physician with the pay for performance incentive associated with a particular guideline in the patient specific guideline list when the physician performs the care option specified by the particular guideline. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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