Incentive Payment Systems

Care for the chronically ill: Nursing home incentive payment experiment

Nursing home reimbursement systems which do not adjust payment levels to patient care needs lead to access problems for heavy-care patients. Unnecessarily long and costly hospital stays may result. A patient-based nursing home incentive reimbursement system has been designed and is being evaluated in a controlled field experiment in 36 California skilled nursing facilities. Incentives are paid ...

Rural implications of the Primary Care incentive Payment Program.

Key Findings. (1) Both the number and proportion of providers eligible to receive Primary Care Incentive Payments in 2011, 2012, and 2013 increased during the years used to determine eligibility (2009, 2010, and 2011). (2) For most practice types, rural providers were more likely to be eligible for Primary Care Incentive Payments. However, rates of eligibility varied between provider types. (3)...

The new "Indigenous health" incentive payment: issues and challenges.

Paying incentives above the baseline Medicare Benefits Schedule to health services for the additional work required to meet the health needs of Aboriginal people or Torres Strait Islanders might mitigate inequalities of care, but evidence supporting this is lacking. The proposed "Indigenous health" incentive payment to reduce Aboriginal health disadvantage, which is largely aimed at increasing ...

Digital Cash Payment Systems

The recent explosion in the popularity of the Internet has been accompanied by considerable interest in using this worldwide collection of interconnected computers as a medium for commerce. While electronic commerce in general is not itself a novel concept, the dizzying pace of change in the computer networking landscape of late promises to bring with it exciting new ways for individuals and co...

Electronic payment systems