We study how physicians respond to financial incentives imposed by episode-based
payment (EBP), which encourages lower spending and improved quality for an entire …

Episode-based payment, one of the payment reforms in the Affordable Care Act, aims to
create incentives for efficiency and better care coordination. But it's more complex to …

US policy makers are making efforts to simultaneously improve the quality of and reduce
spending on health care through alternative payment models such as bundled payment …

At the other end of the spectrum, capitated payments—fixed per-enrollee, per-month
payments—provide strong incentives for care coordination to maximize efficiency and could …

Reforming payment methods to move away from fee-for-service reimbursement is widely
seen as a crucial step toward controlling health care costs. Although there is a good deal of …

On December 20, 2016, the US Department of Health andHumanServices (DHHS)
announcedthefinalmodels forthenextgroupofmandatoryepisode-basedpayments. AllhospitalsacceptingMedicarepatientsin98 …

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This study, sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA), describes how
alternative payment models (APMs) affect physicians, physicians' practices, and hospital …

Under the prospective payment system (PPS), hospitals receive a bundled payment for an
entire episode of treatment based on diagnosis‐related groups (DRG). Although there is …

The rising popularity of episode-based payment models for surgery underscores the need to
better understand the drivers of variability in spending on postacute care. Examining …