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
Achieving Health Care Cost Containment Through Provider Payment Reform that Engages Patients and ProvidersPaul B. Ginsburg	May 2013	Journal Article Health Affairs
Reforming Provider Payment—The Price Side of the EquationPaul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 6, 2011	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Physician Reimbursement and Participation in MedicaidPeter J. Cunningham	Sept. 23, 2010	Testimony
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
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation by Physicians?Peter J. Cunningham, Ann S. O'Malley	Nov. 18, 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs
Paying Hospitals on the Basis of Nursing IntensityPaul B. Ginsburg	May 2008	Journal Article Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice
Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule—Much Activity, Little ChangePaul B. Ginsburg, Robert A. Berenson	March 22, 2007	Perspective New England Journal of Medicine
Care Patterns in Medicare and Their Implications for Pay for PerformanceHoangmai H. Pham, Deborah Schrag, Ann S. O'Malley, Beny Wu, Peter B. Bach	March 15, 2007	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient CarePaul B. Ginsburg	Nov. 16, 2006	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Health Plan Pay-for-Performance StrategiesSally Trude, Melanie Au, Jon B. Christianson	September 2006	Journal Article The American Journal of Managed Care
Effects of Compensation Methods and Physician Group Structure on Physicians' Perceived Incentives to Alter Services to PatientsJames D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley, Bruce Landon	April 2006	Journal Article Health Services Research
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
Delivery of Preventive Services to Older Adults by Primary Care PhysiciansHoangmai H. Pham, Deborah Schrag, J. Lee Hargraves, Peter B. Bach	July 27, 2005	Journal Article Journal of the American Medical Association
Access and Quality: Does Rural America Lag Behind?James D. Reschovsky, Andrea Staiti	July/August 2005	Journal Article Health Affairs
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
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
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
Focused Factories? Physician-owned Specialty FacilitiesLawrence P. Casalino, Kelly Devers, Linda R. Brewster	November/December 2003	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