Financial Incentives to Stimulate Integration of Care

Financial Incentives to Stimulate Integration of Care

Introduction Chronic conditions are related to 60% of disability adjusted life years and account for 75% of total health care expenditure worldwide. The economic burden of chronic conditions is much larger when considering the costs of productivity loss and informal care. The threat that chronic conditions pose to population health and economies increase because of increasing prevalence and mul...

Using financial incentives to promote shared mental health care.

OBJECTIVES To consider the most common primary care reimbursement structures, to identify incentives inherent in each, and to discuss how each could be used to encourage a shared-care approach to treating mental disorders at the primary care level. METHOD Three major financial reimbursement models--fee-for-service, capitation, and blended payment mechanisms--are examined. Each is considered i...

Financial Incentives to Postpone Retirement

Financial incentives for improving the quality of primary care.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 85, Number 7 ◆ April 1, 2012 Clinical Scenario You are the medical director of a large primary care practice. The leaders of a major insurance company have noted that rates of cervical cancer screening, mammography, and smoking cessation counseling in your practice are below national averages. They have proposed providing financial incentives to physicians who provide ca...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors