Determine the benefits of p4p on patients under the

Determine the benefits of P4P on patients.
Under the fee-for-service payment model, the healthcare system was filled with a lot of
patient dissatisfaction. This was mainly caused by the conduct of the healthcare providers who
were driven by the financial incentive of performing as many services as possible (Sura & Shah,
2010). On the other end, some of these services were irrelevant to the treatment process, which
left patients paying much money with less amount of satisfaction. As a result, the healthcare
system accumulated numerous flaws, which regularly fell on the patients’ side. With the
introduction of the P4P program, healthcare providers are discouraged from performing
unnecessary services, and as a result, their treatment processes are more patient-oriented.
Also, the P4P program encourages providers to concentrate more on preventive care,
which yields more benefits than the treatment process. As a result, the patient benefits from
preventive care by reducing the potential costs to have been incurred in the overall treatment
process (Sura & Shah, 2010).

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