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.
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Using Community-Level Quality Measurement to Promote Value in Health Benefit Design
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.
Improving Quality and Value in Health Care: Ideas from the Field
November 13, 2012 | Program Result
The solicitation was a broad call for ideas from the field to rein in spending without jeopardizing patient care. RWJF selected 12 of the most novel ideas and those most likely to engender far-reaching change.
11 Ways to Bolster Efforts to Engage Consumers
December 1, 2011 | Toolkit
This tool/utility is provided as part of a series of technical assistance products to support the efforts of Alliances to engage consumers in using information on quality and cost when making health care decisions.
Health System Reform and Antitrust Law
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.
Charting the Course to High-Value Health 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.
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.
Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and Health Care Reform
June 20, 2011 | Program Result
In 2004, a group of regional collaboratives established the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) to accelerate the formation and effectiveness of such collaboratives across the country.
Studying Maine's Pathways to Excellence Program
May 20, 2011 | Program Result
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.
Spotlight on Payment Reform
September 23, 2009 | Story
The result is the U.S. pays far more for health care than any other nation and is on a path of unsustainable spending growth.