Moving Payment from Volume to Value
December 1, 2010 | Report
Policy brief explores differing views on the role of performance measurement in value-based payment.
Value-based Purchasing
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Low-Value Services in Value-Based Insurance Design
April 7, 2010 | Journal Article
Low-value medical services contribute to sky-rocketing health care costs in the United States. This article examines the benefits and challenges of developing programs that impose disincentives for low-value medical services.
How Does Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Work?
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Medicare#25; Value-Based Purchasing Program, created under the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to reward hospitals when they meet certain standards for delivering high-quality care to patients.
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.
The Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule
September 5, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule on the Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to qualify as meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs) and receive incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
"Pay Doctors for Value, Not Volume," Urges National Health Care Quality Coalition
February 17, 2009 | News Release
A new report from the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) recommends major reforms in the way primary care physicians are paid.
Health Information & the Law
January 1, 2012 | Grantee
New online resource charts federal and state laws governing health information.
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.
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.