Physician Payment Reform : Lessons From Abroad

Health Affairs Abroad Physician Payment Reform : Lessons From

Currency Reform in Turkey and Lessons from Re-Denomination and Euro Changeover

Re-denomination was not only a zero dropping and new coin minting operation but also a significant milestone in Turkey. Before the currency reform, multiple zeros had posed several difficulties in expressing monetary values, transactions, bookkeeping and statistical records, data processing software, payment systems, price labels etc. So, removing six zeros from national currency became a ...

The changing process and politics of health policy in Korea.

Korea recently introduced three major health care reforms: in financing (1999), pharmaceuticals (2000), and provider payment (2001). In these three reforms, new government policies merged more than 350 health insurance societies into a single payer, separated drug prescribing by physicians from dispensing by pharmacists, and attempted to introduce a new prospective payment system. This essay co...

Physician Payment Reform Under Medicare: Monitoring Utilization and Access

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1989 brought about significant changes in physician payment policy under Medicare. A major component of physician payment reform was the implementation on January 1, 1992, of the Medicare fee schedule (MFS). The Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to monitor and report annually on the impact of the changes in physician payment on ac...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Payment Reform Evaluation Project Development and Implementation of Payment Reform to Pay Equally for What Works Equally Well Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, Massachusetts General Hospital

Introduction This report summarizes the history of an innovative payment reform project in Massachusetts which began in 2009 and ended in autumn 2011, at which time project stakeholders mutually decided that the originally anticipated payment change -paying equally for procedures that, according to comparative effectiveness reviews, produced equal outcomes for patients with low-risk prostate ca...