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
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
11th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference	June 21, 2006	Conference Transcript
Behind the Times: Physician Income, 1995-99Marie C. Reed, Paul B. Ginsburg	March 2003	Data Bulletin No. 24
Wide Variation in Hospital and Physician Payment Rates Evidence of Provider Market PowerPaul B. Ginsburg	November 2010	HSC Research Brief No. 16
Getting What We Pay For: Innovations Lacking in Provider Payment Reform for Chronic Disease CareAnn Tynan, Debra A. Draper	June 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 6
Can Money Buy Quality? Physician Response to Pay for PerformanceThomas Bodenheimer, Jessica H. May, Robert A. Berenson, Jennifer Coughlan	December 2005	Issue Brief No. 102
Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches Up, but Productivity Still DominatesJames D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley	January 2007	Issue Brief No. 108
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
Paying for Quality: Health Plans Try Carrots Instead of SticksBradley C. Strunk, Robert E. Hurley	May 2004	Issue Brief No. 82
Physician Incomes in Rural and Urban AmericaJames D. Reschovsky, Andrea Staiti	January 2005	Issue Brief No. 92
Balancing Margin and Mission: Hospitals Alter Billing and Collection Practices for Uninsured PatientsAndrea Staiti, Robert E. Hurley, Peter J. Cunningham	October 2005	Issue Brief No. 99
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
Access and Quality: Does Rural America Lag Behind?James D. Reschovsky, Andrea Staiti	July/August 2005	Journal Article Health Affairs
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
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation by Physicians?Peter J. Cunningham, Ann S. O'Malley	Nov. 18, 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs
Can Hospitals and Physicians Shift the Effects of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement to Private Payers?Paul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 8, 2003	Journal Article Health Affairs
Are Market Forces Strong Enough to Deliver Efficient Health Care Systems? Confidence is WaningLen M. Nichols, Paul B. Ginsburg, Robert A. Berenson, Jon B. Christianson, Robert E. Hurley	March/April 2004	Journal Article Health Affairs
Financial Pressures Spur Physician EntrepreneurialismHoangmai H. Pham, Kelly Devers, Jessica H. May, Robert A. Berenson	March/April 2004	Journal Article Health Affairs
Changes in Medicaid Physician Fees, 1998-2003: Implications For Physician ParticipationStephen Zuckerman, Joshua McFeeters, Peter J. Cunningham, Len M. Nichols	June 23, 2004	Journal Article Health Affairs