Payment reform to strengthen networks of primary care organisations

How to strengthen primary health care

Realization of health care as primary objective is necessary to strengthen primary health care (PHC). There is a need to build financial viable and sustainable PHC based on rational principles to fulfill the goals of providing quality health services on an affordable and equitable basis and also ensuring fiscal prudence. Health-care leadership, innovations in primary care, family medicine speci...

Reform of provider payment in ambulatory care

In 2009, the methods for paying SHI-affiliated physicians in ambulatory care were changed. The era of capitation fees and strict budgeting is over. GPs and specialists are now paid on a capped fee-for-service basis, with a payment ceiling that is set for each doctor and adjusted for specialization, the number of cases and patient age. Instead of a floating-point fee schedule, a fee schedule wit...

Challenges of Payment System to Primary Health Care Providers in Iranian Comprehensive Health Centers

Background and purpose: The primary health care program for the suburbs is being implemented in Iran after the Health Transformation Plan where services are delivered with the priority of outsourcing and purchasing services from non-governmental sectors. In this program, different payment methods have been used. This study aimed at addressing the challenges associated with payments made to urba...

Medicare Physician Payment Reform: Its Effect on Access to Care

This study analyzed a specific indicator condition, congestive heart failure (CHF), to see if there is evidence that physician payment reform (PPR) has had an effect on access to care for Medicare beneficiaries. If there was a decrease in access to ambulatory care services associated with PPR, one would expect to see an increase in hospitalizations for CHF in the period after PPR was implemente...

NRHI Healthcare Payment Reform Series BETTER WAYS TO PAY FOR HEALTH CARE A Primer on Healthcare Payment Reform