Value-based provider payment: towards a theoretically preferred design

towards reforming health provider payment methods: evidence from iran

background equity of access to health and provider payment mechanism in healthcare is a worldwide debated. healthcare reforms are primarily designed to improve productivity, economic efficiency and quality of care; however, an appropriate reimbursement of healthcare providers for services offered to patients and marinating a robust payment mechanism are not elucidated yet. conclusions no single...

Incentives and provider payment methods.

The mode of payment creates powerful incentives affecting provider behavior and the efficiency, equity and quality outcomes of health finance reforms. This article examines provider incentives as well as administrative costs, and institutional conditions for successful implementation associated with provider payment alternatives. The alternatives considered are budget reforms, capitation, fee-f...

A Theoretically-based Process for Organizing Design Patterns

Since their introduction, hundreds of different design patterns have been discovered and documented to address a variety of problems we encounter in software design and construction. However, to use any one of these design patterns effectively and quickly, one must have access to a design pattern definition that unambiguously gives away its intended purpose, and find an easy way to choose one d...

Preferred provider organizations: performance, problems, and promise.

The regulation of preferred provider arrangements.