Strategies To Test New Payment Models For Health Care Outlined In Study

A new RAND Corporation study outlines methods that might be used to test a novel payment system for medical care that would provide doctors, hospitals and other health providers a set fee for treating an ailment such as hip replacement surgery. Proposals to pay health providers for so-called “episodes of care” have gained momentum during the ongoing debate about national health care reform as a strategy that could both curb medical spending and improve the quality of care.

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Filed under: Primary Care on October 5th, 2009