Incentives

Financial incentives offered to providers in a CMS payment model have failed to increase home dialysis and kidney transplantation rates in the first 2 years of the demonstration, published findings show.

Financial incentives helped adolescents with severe obesity lose weight and body fat, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics.

ATLANTA — Among patients with lower socioeconomic status, interventions based on case management and financial incentives improved attendance at cardiac rehabilitation sessions, according to the results of the HeLP trial.

ATLANTA — In a study of behavioral economics, researchers reported benefits of gamification and money incentives to boost daily step count for patients at high risk for CVD.

A home-based, prehabilitation program for liver transplant candidates that included financial incentives and text reminders increased walking by one-third over baseline, according to data presented at EASL Congress.

Despite complaints by some dialysis providers that Medicare payments for treatments are “woefully inadequate,” a Congressional advisory panel concluded that no additional increase beyond current recommendations is needed for 2024.

Financial incentive did not improve uptake of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy among physicians, though uptake was already high before introduction of the incentive, suggesting that there was little room for improvement to start.

Patient mortality correlated with end-stage kidney disease quality incentive program facility payment reductions in “dose-response” and temporal patterns, according to a retrospective study.

In this podcast episode, Shivan Mehta, MD, MBA, MSHP, discusses behavioral economics in patients and clinicians, the entrance of non-traditional entities in the health care space and more.

The National Kidney Foundation announced it has entered a partnership with the American Society of Transplantation’s Living Donor Circle of Excellence program.