From Volume to Value

November 1, 2008 | Report

This report, the first in a series, examines ways to reform payment systems, improve quality and reduce costs in the health care system.

Researchers Investigate Ways to Finance Children's Health Now to Optimize Future Health Status

January 1, 2008 | Program Result Report

Investigators at the UCLA Center for Healthier Children and Families convened a meeting of experts to discuss how innovative financing strategies from other industries could be adapted to promote optimal investment in children's health.

Making Prometheus Payment Rates Real

June 1, 2008 | Report

This project aims to design and test an approach to paying for health care which would simultaneously improve quality, lower administrative burden and pay providers fairly based on known science. This paper reviews the approach to be implemented and describes the real-world decisions necessary to make a pilot possible.

Doctors' Dilemma: How Health Care Financing Shapes Service

August 25, 2003 | Program Result Report

Researchers at the Health Research and Education Trust, in collaboration with the Wharton School, studied joint hospital and physician group efforts to create integrated service arrangements and facilitated managed care contracting.

A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-Wide Cost Containment

April 18, 2013 | Report

The Bipartisan Policy Center recommends ways to contain health care spending while improving the quality and affordability of care.

Bundled Payment: The Quest for Simplicity in Pricing and Tying Payment to Quality

June 11, 2013 | Issue Brief

Local initiatives are showing how new methods for paying for health care can improve quality and control costs. This paper offers four steps that organizations considering a bundled payment pilot should follow.

Supplemental Coverage Associated With More Rapid Spending Growth for Medicare Beneficiaries

May 6, 2013 | Journal Article

This is the first empirical study to investigate whether supplemental Medicare coverage is associated with higher rates of spending growth over time.

Policy Makers Will Need a Way to Update Bundled Payments That Reflects Highly Skewed Spending Growth of Various Care Episodes

May 6, 2013 | Journal Article

Bundled payment is seen as a promising way to slow the growth of health care spending while maintaining or improving the quality of care.

Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform

April 29, 2013 | Report

Experts recommend solutions for closing the gaps in quality and efficiency of health care.

Reducing Costs

These resources explore methods for reducing the ever-increasing costs of American health care.