The healthcare industry has put much focus on pay-for-performance programs to improve the quality of care. Yet new research questions this approach and suggests that providing financial incentives to doctors and hospitals to deliver high-quality care may not necessarily ensure healthier patients. "There is currently little rigorous evidence about whether financial incentives do improve the quality of primary health care, or of whether such an approach is cost-effective relative to other ways of improving the quality of care," according to Dr. Peter Sivey from the University of Melbourne's Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in Australia. -Read the full story from FierceHealthcare