TY - JOUR
KW - Cost Control/methods
KW - Health Care Costs
KW - Health Care Reform/economics
KW - Humans
KW - Insurance, Health/economics/organization & administration/standards
KW - Politics
KW - Quality Assurance, Health Care/economics/methods
KW - Reimbursement Mechanisms/economics
KW - United States
AU - R. F. Averill
AU - N. I. Goldfield
AU - J. C. Vertrees
AU - E. C. McCullough
AU - R. L. Fuller
AU - J. Eisenhandler
A1 - 
AB - The healthcare reform goal of increasing eligibility and coverage cannot be realized without simultaneously achieving control over healthcare costs. The reform of existing payment systems can provide the financial incentive for providers to deliver care in a more coordinated and efficient manner with minimal changes to existing payer and provider infrastructure. Pay for performance, best practice pricing, price discounting, alignment of incentives, the medical home, payment by episodes, and provider performance reports are a set of payment reforms that can result in lower costs, better coordination of care, improved quality of care, and increased consumer involvement. These reforms can produce immediate Medicare annual savings of $10 billion and create the framework for future savings by establishing financial incentives for long-term provider behavior changes that can lead to lower costs.
BT - The Journal of ambulatory care management
C5 - Financing & Sustainability; Healthcare Policy
CP - 1
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/JAC.0b013e3181c9f437
IS - 1
JF - The Journal of ambulatory care management
N2 - The healthcare reform goal of increasing eligibility and coverage cannot be realized without simultaneously achieving control over healthcare costs. The reform of existing payment systems can provide the financial incentive for providers to deliver care in a more coordinated and efficient manner with minimal changes to existing payer and provider infrastructure. Pay for performance, best practice pricing, price discounting, alignment of incentives, the medical home, payment by episodes, and provider performance reports are a set of payment reforms that can result in lower costs, better coordination of care, improved quality of care, and increased consumer involvement. These reforms can produce immediate Medicare annual savings of $10 billion and create the framework for future savings by establishing financial incentives for long-term provider behavior changes that can lead to lower costs.
PP - United States
PY - 2010
SN - 1550-3267; 0148-9917
SP - 2
EP - 23
EP - 
T1 - Achieving cost control, care coordination, and quality improvement through incremental payment system reform
T2 - The Journal of ambulatory care management
TI - Achieving cost control, care coordination, and quality improvement through incremental payment system reform
U1 - Financing & Sustainability; Healthcare Policy
U2 - 20026992
U3 - 10.1097/JAC.0b013e3181c9f437
VL - 33
VO - 1550-3267; 0148-9917
Y1 - 2010
ER -