Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage and made it affordable to many more
Americans, we have the opportunity to shape the way care is delivered and improve the …

Intention matters in health policy. Nearlyadecadeago, federalpolicymakerssetanintentiontomakeh…
more financially sustainable, affordable, and efficient by shiftingthenationalhealthcaresystemtoward …

“REACHing” for Equity — Moving from Regressive toward Progressive Value-Based Payment |
New England Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine …

Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently announced the
department's intention to tie most Medicare fee-for-service payments to value by 2018. 1 Mostcommercialinsurersalreadyincentivize …

Over the past decade, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have led the
nationwide shift toward value-based payment. A major strategy for achieving this goal has …

The transition of health care from volume to value is no longer theoretical, or wishful
thinking. 1 The work is now under way. In this issue of JAMA, the article by Lee et al2 from …

Many health policy analysts envision provider payment reforms currently under development
as replacements for the traditional fee-for-service payment system. Reforms include per …

The past year saw multiple developments that could affect payment reform—a new
administration was getting up to speed, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was debated and its …

Objectives To present the implications of agency theory in microeconomics, augmented by
behavioral economics, for different methods of value‐based payment in health care; and to …

The US health care system is currently experiencing profound change. Pressure to improve
the quality of patient care and control costs have caused a rapid shift from traditional volume …