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

NRHI Healthcare Payment Reform Series

Creating Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-driven Health Care: Issues and Options for Policy Reform

This paper is designed to assist health care payers and policymakers to restructure payment systems in ways that will improve the quality of health care and reduce (or slow the growth in) the costs of health care. Drawing on the research and proposals of many researchers and practitioners, it attempts to: summarize the key concepts involved in any discussion of ways to restructure payment syste...

Healthcare Reimbursement and Quality Improvement: Integration Using the Electronic Medical Record; Comment on “Fee-for-service Payment - an Evil Practice That Must Be Stamped Out?”

Reimbursement for healthcare has utilized a variety of payment mechanisms with varying degrees of effectiveness. Whether these mechanisms are used singly or in combination, it is imperative that the resulting systems remunerate on the basis of the quantity, complexity, and quality of care provided. Expanding the role of the electronic medical record (EMR) to monitor provider practice, patient r...

بررسی میزان پرداخت هزینه‌های عمل تعویض دریچه آئورت توسط بیماران، قبل و بعد از اجرای طرح تحول نظام سلامت در بیمارستان نمازی شیراز در سال 1395

  Background and Objectives: One of the main aims in Health Care Reform Plan is improvement of justice in household’s financial participation that its tool is reduction of out-of- pocket payment. This study was conducted to compare out- of- pocket payment for aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery before and after implementation of the Health Care Reform Plan in Shiraz Namazi Hospital in 2016....

Ten Barriers to Healthcare Payment Reform and How to Overcome Them

He is a frequent speaker at national, state, and local programs on healthcare reform and has given invited testimony to Congress on payment reform. Miller has worked with a number of states and regions to help design and implement payment and delivery system reforms. His work with the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) demonstrating the significant financial penalties that hospitals c...