Minnesota Health Care Group To Launch Pilot ‘Pay-for-Performance’ Initiative To Reduce Treatment Costs For Depression

The Buyers Health Care Action Group, a health care purchasing coalition in Minnesota for large employers, on Wednesday announced a pay-for-performance pilot program that will reward physicians who effectively treat depressed patients, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. The program will start in 2009 (Forster, St. Paul Pioneer Press, 5/28).

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Filed under: Depression on June 10th, 2008