Economics influences how medical care is delivered, organized, and progresses. Fee-for-service payment encourages delivery of services. Fee-for-individual-service, however, offers no incentives for clinicians to efficiently organize the care their patients need. Global capitation provides such incentives; it works well in highly integrated practices but not for independent practitioners. The failures of utilization management in the 1990s demonstrated the need for a third alternative to better align incentives, such as bundling payment for an episode of care. Building on Medicare's approach to hospital payment, one can define expanded diagnosis-related groups that include all hospital, physician, and other costs during the stay and appropri...
Healthcare spending has increased at nearly five times the rate of overall economic growth over the ...
Abstract A remarkable consensus has developed that the fee-for-service (FFS) approach for paying med...
Incentive-based pay is rational, intuitive, and popular. Agency theory tells us that a principal see...
Economics influences how medical care is delivered, organized, and progresses. Fee-for-service payme...
Economics influences how medical care is delivered, organized, and progresses. Fee-for-service payme...
The Author(s) 2009. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Economic...
Combining the economic literature on principal-agent relationships with examples of marketplace inno...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act encourages use of payment methods and incentives to p...
Healthcare reimbursements in the United States have been traditionally based on a fee-for-service (F...
and incentives to promote integrated care delivery models including patient-centered medical homes, ...
Health care organizational structures support alternative combinations of payment and nonprice incen...
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In recen...
Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-servi...
selection, capitation, incentives, risk adjustment. Diverse provider payment systems create incentiv...
The managed care revolution has significantly changed the delivery and finance of healthcare in the ...
Healthcare spending has increased at nearly five times the rate of overall economic growth over the ...
Abstract A remarkable consensus has developed that the fee-for-service (FFS) approach for paying med...
Incentive-based pay is rational, intuitive, and popular. Agency theory tells us that a principal see...
Economics influences how medical care is delivered, organized, and progresses. Fee-for-service payme...
Economics influences how medical care is delivered, organized, and progresses. Fee-for-service payme...
The Author(s) 2009. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Economic...
Combining the economic literature on principal-agent relationships with examples of marketplace inno...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act encourages use of payment methods and incentives to p...
Healthcare reimbursements in the United States have been traditionally based on a fee-for-service (F...
and incentives to promote integrated care delivery models including patient-centered medical homes, ...
Health care organizational structures support alternative combinations of payment and nonprice incen...
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In recen...
Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-servi...
selection, capitation, incentives, risk adjustment. Diverse provider payment systems create incentiv...
The managed care revolution has significantly changed the delivery and finance of healthcare in the ...
Healthcare spending has increased at nearly five times the rate of overall economic growth over the ...
Abstract A remarkable consensus has developed that the fee-for-service (FFS) approach for paying med...
Incentive-based pay is rational, intuitive, and popular. Agency theory tells us that a principal see...