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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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Incentives for Vertical Integration in Healthcare: The Effect of Reimbursement Systems

Journal of Healthcare Management, 1999
In the United States, many healthcare organizations are being transformed into large integrated delivery systems, even though currently available empirical evidence does not provide strong or unequivocal support for or against vertical integration. Unfortunately, the manager cannot delay organizational changes until further research has been completed,
M M, Byrne, C M, Ashton
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Reimbursement policies, incentives and disincentives to perform laparoscopic surgery in Israel

Health Policy, 2001
The introduction of laparoscopic surgery was believed to bestow great advantages to patients and health services. Health services and societal costs may also be affected by changes in length of hospital stay, operating room costs and return to normal activity. The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of two different reimbursement methods (per
D, Greenberg, J G, Peiser, Y, Peterburg, J S, Pliskin   +3 more
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Complexity, Tertiariness and Healthcare: Unresolved Issues of Reimbursement and Incentives

Die Unternehmung, 2016
Although “complexity” in health care is commonly associated with “tertiary” hospitals in many countries, there is no accepted defini- tion of tertiariness or agreement on structural and funding arrange- ments. This paper attempts a conceptual analysis of complexity in tertiary hospitals in terms of clinical views, capability requirements and process ...
Chris Ernst, Paul Rouse
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The Limits of Medicaid Reimbursement Incentives

Evaluation & the Health Professions, 1996
Provider incentive payments in the Medicaid program have been in operation nationally since the early 1980s. Although initially indicating favorable results, recently the ability of such incentives to produce the desired action has been questioned. This study examined the Florida Medicaid AIDS Nursing Home Admission Incentive Program to determine the ...
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The Perverse Incentives Of Global Reimbursement

Health Affairs, 2011
Benjamin P, Falit, Arie P, Dosoretz
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