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October 25, 2010 | Journal Article
Most physicians believe that Medicare reimbursements are inequitable but do not agree on how to reform the payment system. Physicians' views may be helpful in optimizing the design of any reimbursement reforms. The researchers of this study solicited their opinions regarding three reform strategies.
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
When hospital service line profit goes down, mortality goes up.
January 1, 2009 | Report
Study details regulations and enforcement needed to fill gaps in protecting consumers in insurance markets.
January 20, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
A newly released study from RWJF Clinical Scholar (2009-2011) Lenard Lesser, M.D., finds that Medicare covers only a fraction of the preventive care services recommended by a government task force, and that health care reform should be able to mend ...
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This survey on quality-based payment found that the prevalence of external performance bonuses paid by insurers to large medical groups is larger than the prevalence of performance bonuses paid by the medical groups to the primary care and specialist physicians.
June 21, 2010 | Book
The sixth issue of the PROMETHEUS Payment® project’s newsletter provides brief updates on the program’s latest work to lead a revolution in health care payment and the way providers and insurers conduct business.
September 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute furthered the development and pilot testing of its Prometheus bundled payment model. Researchers at RAND and the Harvard School of Public Health evaluated the initiative at three pilot sites.
December 27, 2009 | Book
The fifth issue of the PROMETHEUS Payment project's quarterly newsletter provides updates on the program's work to ignite a transformation in health care payment and the way providers and insurers conduct business.
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Provisions of the Affordable Care Act offer extraordinary opportunities to insure many more people, reimburse previously unreimbursed services, integrate care using new information technology tools and treatment teams, confront complex chronic comorbidities, and adopt underused evidence-based interventions.
October 7, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Glenn A. Melnick, PhD.