Adventures in Librarianship: Fee for Service

Realigning incentives in fee-for-service Medicare.

This paper proposes Medicare payment reform built on the fee-for-service system, with incentive payments to eligible provider organizations determined by their rate of increase in cost per patient compared to the overall growth rate in the community. By planning and monitoring how care patterns are altered to achieve greater efficiency, policy-makers can align the incentives of Medicare and the...

In Defense of Regulated Fee-for-Service Payment: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Phasing out fee-for-service payment.

In March 2012, the Society of General Internal Medicine convened the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform to recommend forms of payment that would maximize good clinical outcomes, enhance patient and physician satisfaction and autonomy, and provide cost-effective care. The formation of the commission was spurred by the recognition that the level of spending on health care in the Unit...

Medicare Fee-for-Service Issues and Innovations

This issue focuses on selected developments in the Medicare fee-for-service program. Two of the articles provide new estimates of the effect of Medicare supplemental insurance on total Medicare utilization and costs: One addresses utilization differences under alternative forms of supplemental insurance, and the other reports on utilization experience under the Medicare SELECT Demonstration. Tw...

Fee increase proposed for Health Service improvement

by BARBARA RICHMOND On April 25, as part of the S.A. balloting, students will be asked for their opinion on a proposal for a fee increase of $'9.72 to make improvements in the Student Health Service. This proposal has been offered to Rice by the Kelsey-Siebold clinic, new administrators of the Health Service, in response to a list of priorities drawn up by the Student Health Service Committee a...