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
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
Focused Factories? Physician-owned Specialty FacilitiesLawrence P. Casalino, Kelly Devers, Linda R. Brewster	November/December 2003	Journal Article Health Affairs,
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
Financial Incentives and Physicians' Perceptions of Conflict of Interest and Ability to Arrange Medically Necessary ServicesJeffrey Stoddard, Marie C. Reed, Jack Hadley	January 2003	Journal Article Journal of Ambulatory Care Management
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
Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient CarePaul B. Ginsburg	Nov. 16, 2006	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
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
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
Reforming Provider Payment—The Price Side of the EquationPaul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 6, 2011	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Paying Hospitals on the Basis of Nursing IntensityPaul B. Ginsburg	May 2008	Journal Article Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice
Health Plan Pay-for-Performance StrategiesSally Trude, Melanie Au, Jon B. Christianson	September 2006	Journal Article The American Journal of Managed Care
Episode-Based Payments: Charting a Course for Health Care Payment ReformHoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg, Timothy K. Lake, Myles Maxfield	January 2010	NIHCR Policy Analysis No. 1
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 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
Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule—Much Activity, Little ChangePaul B. Ginsburg, Robert A. Berenson	March 22, 2007	Perspective New England Journal of Medicine
Physician Reimbursement and Participation in MedicaidPeter J. Cunningham	Sept. 23, 2010	Testimony
A Growing Hole in the Safety Net: Physician Charity Care Declines AgainPeter J. Cunningham, Jessica H. May	March 2006	Tracking Report No. 13
Losing Ground: Physician Income, 1995-2003Ha T. Tu, Paul B. Ginsburg	June 2006	Tracking Report No. 15
Kinder and Gentler: Physicians and Managed Care, 1997-2001Bradley C. Strunk, James D. Reschovsky	November 2002	Tracking Report No. 5
Back in the Driver's Seat: Specialists Regaining AutonomyJ. Lee Hargraves, Hoangmai H. Pham	January 2003	Tracking Report No. 7