Will P4P kill off public hospitals?

Another possible unintended consequence:

In an analysis of three years’ worth of key performance measures, these hospitals fared worse at baseline than hospitals with fewer Medicaid patients, and they had significantly smaller improvements thereafter, suggesting a grim reimbursement fate if the model becomes more widespread.

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