Moving Payment from Volume to Value
December 1, 2010 | Report
Policy brief explores differing views on the role of performance measurement in value-based payment.
Value-based Purchasing
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Improving Evaluations of Value-Based Purchasing Programs
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Although there is an eagerness to understand more about value-based purchasing (VBP) in health care, research methods examining the impact and implementation of the programs must be improved, according to this essay in Health Service Research in 2020.
Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There-Payment Reform
June 30, 2009 | Presentation Material
This slideshow presents several case studies about payment reform that rely on measuring and reporting performance information and rewarding health care providers for quality improvement efforts.
"Pay Doctors for Value, Not Volume," Urges National Health Care Quality Coalition
February 17, 2009 | News Release
A new report from the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) recommends major reforms in the way primary care physicians are paid.
An Emerging Middle Ground?
July 6, 2009 | Report
The report identifies and explores eight areas in which diverse business, medical and consumer interests are beginning to find middle ground and earn the support of bipartisan lawmakers.
Studying Maine's Pathways to Excellence Program
May 20, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
Better Ways to Pay for Health Care
January 14, 2009 | Report
This primer provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the problems with current health care payment systems and describes alternative payment systems that will address these problems.
From Volume to Value
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study proposes two methods of payment reform that could facilitate higher quality and lower cost "episode-of-care payment" and "comprehensive care payment" (condition-adjusted capitation).