UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The 58th World Health Assembly and 56th WHO Regional Committee for Africa adopted resolutions urging Member States to ensure that health financing systems included a method for prepayment to foster financial risk sharing among the population and avoid catastrophic health-care expenditure. The Regional Committee asked countries to strengthen or develop comprehensive heal...

Many health policy analysts envision provider payment reforms currently under development as replacements for the traditional fee-forservice payment system. Reforms include per episode bundled payment and elements of capitation, such as global payments or accountable care organizations. But even if these approaches succeed and are widely adopted, the core method of payment to many physicians fo...

The objective of this study is to explore antecedents of trust and the influence of trust on intention to use mobile payments. The research examines three dimensions of trust antecedents including trust perceptions of the mobile service provider, the mobile payment vendor and mobile technology. The results are based on a survey sample of 302 participants. PLS-SEM is employed in the data analysi...

With increasing demands for emergency medical services (EMS), many EMS jurisdictions are utilizing EMS provider-initiated nontransport policies as a method to offload potentially nonemergent patients from the EMS system. EMS provider determination of medical necessity, resulting in nontransport of patients, has the potential to avert unnecessary emergency department visits. However, EMS systems...

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hereby issues this final rule with comment period to implement a methodology and payment rates for the Indian Health Service (IHS) Purchased/Referred Care (PRC), formerly known as the Contract Health Services (CHS), to apply Medicare payment methodologies to all physician and other health care professional services and non-hospi...

California Improvement Network (CIN) partners — provider groups and coalitions, health plans, and quality improvement organizations — gathered in February 2017 to discuss the payment landscape and how to prepare for likely changes. While health care policies were being debated in Washington, DC, the partners expressed concern about potential upheaval but also hope that any changes will enable t...

Screening in primary care is widely recommended (e.g. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), and is increasingly targeted for improvement. As health care payers try to influence the implementation and delivery of alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI), some are using provider payment approaches. These include specific reimbursement...

In this paper, we focus on those policy instruments with monetary incentives that are used to contain public health expenditure in high-income countries. First, a schematic view of the main cost-containment methods and the variables in the health system they intend to influence is presented. Two types of instruments to control the level and growth of public health expenditure are considered: (i...