Financial Incentives and Gaming in Alcohol Treatment

This study looks at the effect of performance-based contracting (PBC) on administrative information misreports in substance abuse treatment in Maine. For about 700 alcohol abuse treatment episodes in the period 1990–1995, we constructed clinician report gaming indicators from two data sets: the Main...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mingshan Lu, Ching-To Albert Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2006-02-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_43.1.34