Pay-for-Performance to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care in the Massachusetts Medicaid Program
The 2006 Massachusetts health care reform law included a provision to make Medicaid hospital rate increases contingent upon quality measures, including measures of the reduction of racial and ethnic disparities. To date, no other pay-for-performance programs have incorporated measures of the reduction of racial and ethnic disparities into their incentives. MMPI organized the Massachusetts Medicaid Disparities Policy Roundtable to bring together a group of experts to develop and recommend an approach to implementing the program.
![](/sites/g/files/csphws2101/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2020-10/20077_disparities01.jpg?itok=pf2K4HNE)
![](/sites/g/files/csphws2101/files/styles/publication_thumbnail/public/2020-10/20077_disparities01.jpg?itok=pf2K4HNE)