An Emerging Middle Ground?
July 6, 2009 | Report
The report identifies and explores eight areas in which diverse business, medical and consumer interests are beginning to find middle ground and earn the support of bipartisan lawmakers.
Value-based Purchasing
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Assessing the Evidence for Value-Based Insurance Design
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
High copayments for medical services can cause patients to underuse essential therapies.
Better Ways to Pay for Health Care
January 14, 2009 | Report
This primer provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the problems with current health care payment systems and describes alternative payment systems that will address these problems.
Business Coalitions Face Challenges as Purchasers of Quality Low-Cost Health Care
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Between April 1995 and September 1996, the Economic and Social Research Institute, Washington, examined the design, implementation, and outcomes of new purchasing strategies in six business coalitions across the country — a sample of the most innovative and advanced purchasing groups in the United States.
Charting the Course to High-Value Health Care
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This issue brief highlights the work of the High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative that is working with key stakeholders to make consistent and useful information about the quality and cost of health care widely available to patients, physicians, hospitals, health insurers and others.
Disparities Reduction and Minority Health Improvement Under the ACA
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This brief developed by the Legal Barriers team reviews provisions in the Affordable Care Act that address the issue of disparities reduction.
Easing the Pathway to Accountable Care Organizations
November 21, 2011 | Journal Article
The revised Medicare Shared Savings Program makes concessions and compromises to encourage a fundamental effort at health system change.
From Volume to Value
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study proposes two methods of payment reform that could facilitate higher quality and lower cost "episode-of-care payment" and "comprehensive care payment" (condition-adjusted capitation).
Health Information & the Law
January 1, 2012 | Grantee
New online resource charts federal and state laws governing health information.
Health System Reform and Antitrust Law
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This policy brief addresses antitrust considerations that arise in health system transformation aimed at producing greater clinical integration and greater levels of information about the quality and cost of care.