Fee-for-benefit: a strategy to improve the quality of health care and control costs through reimbursement incentives.
J Am Coll Cardiol
; 22(2): 343-52, 1993 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-8335803
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether reimbursement in direct proportion to expected therapeutic benefit is capable of improving the utilization and cost of health care. BACKGROUND: The benefit associated with a particular medical or surgical treatment varies widely from patient to patient. Nevertheless, payment to the provider of the treatment is essentially invariant under the current fee-for-service system. Under an alternative fee-for-benefit strategy, empiric data are used to construct a multivariate model to predict the expected benefit to an individual patient from a particular health care service on the basis of conventional clinical descriptors. The payers and the providers of the service then openly negotiate an explicit economic relation between expected benefit and monetary payment such that payment is directly proportional to benefit. METHODS: Computer simulations were performed to determine the potential impact of this fee-for-benefit strategy with respect to medical versus surgical treatment of coronary artery disease. RESULTS: Compared with conventional fee-for-service, fee-for-benefit resulted in a 12% improvement in patient benefit (quality-adjusted survival), a 22% reduction in provider payments and a 55% increase in cost/benefit (the ratio of benefit to payment). CONCLUSIONS: The incentives embodied in a fee-for-benefit strategy can be an effective mechanism for encouraging more appropriate health care utilization while simultaneously controlling health care costs.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Reembolso de Incentivo
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Puente de Arteria Coronaria
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Evaluación de Resultado en la Atención de Salud
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Costos de la Atención en Salud
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Enfermedad Coronaria
Tipo de estudio:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
País como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Año:
1993
Tipo del documento:
Article