Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: federal performance measurement
  • Setting the stage: third parties, fiscal federalism, and accountability
  • Performance measurement as political and administrative reform
  • Performance as grants to third party service providers: the Health Resources and Services Administration
  • Performance as the provision of health financial security: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • Performance as grants to third-party research providers: the National Institutes of Health
  • Measuring the health performance of sovereign tribes as third parties: the Indian Health Services
  • Performance as regulation: the Food and Drug Administration
  • Measuring performance and results in theory and practice
  • After Government Performance and Results Act : performance measurement, performance budgeting and performance management.