Pay$-$for$-$Performance ties employee's pay to their performance on the job. This process motivates and rewards quality and safety in hospitals, as well as by providers to align quality and outcomes with payments. Uniform employee salary schedules are viewed as ineffective in attracting and retaining enough effective employees and as out of touch with compensation practices in other industries that tie salary to employee performance.

Discuss the purpose and philosophy of quality improvement$/$assessment and how risk management is related to the components of quality. Identify ways that pay$-$for$-$performance influenced or changed aspects of health record documentation.