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Does Medicare Reimbursement Drive Up Drug Launch Prices?

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020
Medicare reimburses health care providers for the drugs they administer. Since 2005, it has reimbursed based on the past price of the drug. Reimbursement on past prices could motivate manufacturers to set higher launch prices because providers become ...
D. Ridley, Chung-ying Lee
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Physician Reimbursement: Fee-for-Service, Accountable Care, and the Future of Bundled Payments.

Hand Clinics, 2020
In 1992, the use of relative value units to link a particular payments with specific services was initiated to replace traditional fee for service. The system incentivizes volume rather than quality.
A. Miller-Breslow, N. Raizman
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Paying for innovation: Reimbursement incentives for antibiotics

Science Translational Medicine, 2015
Reimbursement incentives could promote antibiotic research and development—in particular, for new drugs to treat complex infections commonly found in hospitals.
Thomas J, Hwang, Daniel, Carpenter, Aaron S, Kesselheim   +2 more
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Reimbursement Incentives to Improve Adherence to Follow-Up of Cervical Cancer Cytology Screening Results in Peru

Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease, 2019
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine Peruvian women's attitudes toward novel reimbursement incentives used to improve adherence to obtaining cervical cytology test results.
D. Ferris, Jessica Chen, Austin Isaac, Evan M. Braithwaite, Elena Beideck, Nima Mikail, D. Krotish, J. Waller   +7 more
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Balancing Incentives

JAMA, 1992
The May 15, 1991, JAMA theme issue presented 14 different proposals for reforming the US medical care system. Though these proposals varied widely, they encompassed only three proposed methods for paying physicians: fee-for-service, salary, and capitation.
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Rebates as incentives: The effects of a gym membership reimbursement program

Journal of Health Economics, 2020
A rich experimental literature demonstrates positive effects of pay-per-visit fitness incentives. However, most insurance plans that provide fitness incentives follow a different structure, offering membership reimbursements conditional on meeting a specific attendance threshold. We provide the first evidence in the literature on gym incentives of this
Tatiana, Homonoff, Barton, Willage, Alexander, Willén   +2 more
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Association Between Reimbursement Incentives and Physician Practice in Oncology

JAMA Oncology, 2019
Importance: Significant controversy exists regarding whether physicians factor personal financial considerations into their clinical decision making. Within oncology, several reimbursement policies may incentivize physicians to increase health care use. Objective: To evaluate whether the financial incentives presented by oncology reimbursement policies
Aaron P, Mitchell, Jason S, Rotter, Esita, Patel, Daniel, Richardson, Stephanie B, Wheeler, Ethan, Basch, Daniel A, Goldstein   +6 more
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Cost-Based Reimbursement and Prospective Payment: Reassessing the Incentives

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1982
Prospective payment is distinguished from the imposition of a regulatory ceiling on hospital costs. While a regulatory ceiling could potentially be effective in controlling expenditure growth, its success depends upon the political climate. Prospective payment, as a distinct financial policy, offers little cost-containment potential.
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Financial incentives in health care. The impact of performance-based reimbursement

Health Policy, 2001
The key question addressed in this study is whether performance-based reimbursement (PBR) is a useful way to create the right incentive for efficiency improvements in health care. In this 4-year prospective cohort study, physicians in one council with PBR and in ten councils without such a system were studied.
E, Forsberg, R, Axelsson, B, Arnetz
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Medicare Home Health Reimbursement Alternatives

Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 1993
This paper presents a conceptual analysis of access, quality, and cost containment incentives created by several current and potential Medicare reimbursement methodologies. The alternatives examined are methods used by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and three options receiving national policy consideration: prospective per-visit and per ...
R E, Schlenker, P W, Shaughnessy
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