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August 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Employers or health plans may provide financial incentives to consumers in an effort to “steer” them to high quality or low-cost providers, based on these tiers, through reduced deductibles or copayments.
May 1, 2013 | Issue Brief
This brief offers promising tactics for community alliances to attract and retain employers as partners, both as purchasers and as channels for communicating with employees and their families.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Medicare#25; Value-Based Purchasing Program, created under the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to reward hospitals when they meet certain standards for delivering high-quality care to patients.
January 1, 2013 | Issue Brief
As the largest purchaser of health care in America, employers are paying a high price for poor-quality care. About 55 percent of Americans get health insurance through employers, and employers pay for nearly three-quarters of premiums. Improving the quality of health care could improve health while saving money.
January 1, 2013 | Issue Brief
As the largest purchaser of health care in America, employers are paying a high price for poor-quality care. About 55 percent of Americans get health insurance through employers, and employers pay for nearly three-quarters of premiums. Improving the quality of health care could improve health while saving money.
January 1, 2013 | Issue Brief/Infographic
As the largest purchaser of health care in America, employers are paying a high price for poor-quality care. About 55 percent of Americans get health insurance through employers, and employers pay for nearly three-quarters of premiums.
September 5, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule on the Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to qualify as meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs) and receive incentive payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This policy brief addresses antitrust considerations that arise in health system transformation aimed at producing greater clinical integration and greater levels of information about the quality and cost of care.
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This issue brief highlights the work of the High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative that is working with key stakeholders to make consistent and useful information about the quality and cost of health care widely available to patients, physicians, hospitals, health insurers and others.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This brief developed by the Legal Barriers team reviews provisions in the Affordable Care Act that address the issue of disparities reduction.