Payment Reform

Replacing Medicare's Payment Formula with Incentives to Improve Care

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Medicare Advantage Costs Often Exceed Traditional Medicare

May 7, 2013 - Under the Affordable Care Act, overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans are gradually being pared back. But will private plans be able to cope with the reduced payments? Using newly available government data, this brief examines average costs among Medicare Advantage plans and variation in costs among plan types.

Paying for Effective Primary Care for Chronic Conditions

March 18, 2013 - In this Commonwealth Fund–supported article, the authors suggest that "bundled payment" covering all services provided to a patient for treatment of a specific illness or injury would need to be risk-adjusted, so that providers do not have incentives to avoid patients, like those with chronic illness, who can be expected to have higher costs.

Events  

The Innovation Center Webinar: Testing Reforms with Rigor and Speed

November 30, 2011 - This webinar looked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s priorities, explored how it can best conduct rigorous, rapid-cycle evaluation, and examined the role of health care providers in identifying and rolling out innovations. Presentations and link to a recording are now available. The event was cosponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth.

 

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Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey: Views on Health Reform and the Role of States

Views on Delivery System Innovation and Improvement

Subtopics  

Accountable Care Organizations

Medical Homes

Care Coordination

»Multimedia  

Why Accountable Care Is a Game Changer

by Sandy Hausman | 5/18/2012
 

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Changing the Way Medicare Pays Physicians—Strike While the Iron Is Hot

February 25, 2013 - Stuart Guterman, executive director of its Commission on a High Performance Health System, explains why now is the perfect time to reform Medicare physicians payment.