Payment Policy

How health care providers are paid can directly affect their behavior and how care is delivered to patients. HSC research in this area focuses on the incentives faced by providers and the impact on patients.

Title	Date	Document Info
Health Plan Pay-for-Performance StrategiesSally Trude, Melanie Au, Jon B. Christianson	September 2006	Journal Article The American Journal of Managed Care
Kinder and Gentler: Physicians and Managed Care, 1997-2001Bradley C. Strunk, James D. Reschovsky	November 2002	Tracking Report No. 5
Losing Ground: Physician Income, 1995-2003Ha T. Tu, Paul B. Ginsburg	June 2006	Tracking Report No. 15
Paying for Quality: Health Plans Try Carrots Instead of SticksBradley C. Strunk, Robert E. Hurley	May 2004	Issue Brief No. 82
Paying Hospitals on the Basis of Nursing IntensityPaul B. Ginsburg	May 2008	Journal Article Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice
Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches Up, but Productivity Still DominatesJames D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley	January 2007	Issue Brief No. 108
Physician Incomes in Rural and Urban AmericaJames D. Reschovsky, Andrea Staiti	January 2005	Issue Brief No. 92
Physician Reimbursement and Participation in MedicaidPeter J. Cunningham	Sept. 23, 2010	Testimony
Policy Options to Encourage Patient-Physician Shared Decision MakingAnn S. O'Malley, Emily Carrier, Elizabeth Docteur, Alison C. Shmerling, Eugene C. Rich	September 2011	NIHCR Policy Analysis No. 5
Primary Care Doctors Who Treat Blacks and WhitesPeter B. Bach, Hoangmai H. Pham, Deborah Schrag, Ramsey C. Tate, J. Lee Hargraves	Aug. 5, 2004	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Primary Care Physicians' Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients: The Scope of Care CoordinationHoangmai H. Pham, Ann S. O'Malley, Peter B. Bach, Deborah Schrag	Feb. 17, 2009	Journal Article Annals of Internal Medicine
Primary Care Workforce Shortages: Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws and Payment PoliciesTracy Yee, Ellyn R. Boukus, Dori A. Cross, Divya R. Samuel	February 2013	NIHCR Research Brief No. 13
Private Payer Roles in moving to More Efficient Health SpendingPaul B. Ginsburg	March 15, 2007	Book Chapter
Provider Payment Incentives and Delivery System ReformPaul B. Ginsburg	October 2008	Book Chapter
Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient CarePaul B. Ginsburg	Nov. 16, 2006	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Reforming Provider Payment—The Price Side of the EquationPaul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 6, 2011	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule—Much Activity, Little ChangePaul B. Ginsburg, Robert A. Berenson	March 22, 2007	Perspective New England Journal of Medicine
Rising Hospital Employment of Physicians: Better Quality, Higher Costs?Ann S. O'Malley, Amelia M. Bond, Robert A. Berenson	August 2011	Issue Brief No. 136
When the Price Isn't Right: How Inadvertent Payment Incentives Drive Medical CarePaul B. Ginsburg, Joy M. Grossman	Aug. 9, 2005	Journal Article Health Affairs
Wide Variation in Hospital and Physician Payment Rates Evidence of Provider Market PowerPaul B. Ginsburg	November 2010	HSC Research Brief No. 16