Financial incentives to promote health care quality: the hospital acquired conditions nonpayment policy.

Kevin T Kavanagh

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Financial incentives to promote health care quality: the hospital acquired conditions nonpayment policy.

September 21, 2011

Kavanagh KT. Soc Work Public Health. 2011;26(5):524-41.

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This commentary describes how financial incentives, such as Medicare's nonpayment policy for preventable hospital-acquired conditions, can promote health care quality.

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