Pros And Cons Of Incentive Reward In Healthcare

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children to reach certain goals or pass state given test to receive increases or even a bonus. In most states like New York, they were giving incentives to work in schools that were low income to hopeful raise the children scores in those areas. Nevertheless, all schools needs teachers, teachers in most cases are being under paid and need an increase, they spend the most time with children.
In healthcare, the pay for performance is different. Healthcare providers are paid incentives for certain performance measures with patient care. Healthcare employees should not be reward for certain performance measures. There are pros and cons to this incentive reward, healthcare providers should all want all phases of their job to be above average.

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