Creating payment systems to accelerate value-driven health care: issues and options for policy reform

Creating payment systems to accelerate value-driven health care: issues and options for policy reform

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Contributor(s):
Miller, Harold D.
Commonwealth Fund.
Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, [2007]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Health Care Reform
Policy Making
Reimbursement Mechanisms
Social Values
Quality of Health Care
Reimbursement, Incentive
Humans
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
This paper is designed to assist health care payers and policymakers to restructure payment systems in ways that will improve the quality of health care and reduce (or slow the growth in) the costs of health care. Drawing on the research and proposals of many researchers and practitioners, it attempts to: summarize the key concepts involved in any discussion of ways to restructure payment systems; catalog the quality and cost problems that current payment systems create; list the key concerns that have been raised about pay-for-performance systems in health care; propose 12 goals that revised payment systems should seek to achieve in order to effectively address the problems; define the specific issues that need to be resolved in order to achieve these goals; describe the primary options for addressing each of these issues; and suggest a general strategy for making progress on payment restructuring.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101462081 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101462081