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The phrase "perverse incentive" is often used in economics to describe an incentive structure with undesirable results, particularly when those effects...

unbundled and paid for separately. In health care, it gives an incentive for physicians to provide more treatments because payment is dependent on the...

"value-based purchasing", is a payment model that offers financial incentives to physicians, hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare providers for...

expenditure on drugs, which is explained by the fact physician-prescribing gives doctors an incentive to over-prescribe. This is an example of a conflict...

October 2016. "Physicians in geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Physician Scarcity Areas (PSAs) can receive incentive payments from...

care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for...

A primary care physician (PCP) is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing...

affected the supply of Medicaid physicians. Incentives and higher reimbursement rates may have increased the number of physicians accepting Medicaid patients...

state incentives; positive media coverage; and college savings registries that allow people sign up for the program. Some employers offer 529 plans to their...

years earlier than the target date of 2020. Alternative Fuel Vehicle Incentive Program (also known as Fueling Alternatives) is funded by the California...

and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc...

health plan (HDHP) is a health insurance plan with lower premiums and higher deductibles than a traditional health plan. It is intended to incentivize consumer-driven...

Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS is an American physician and educator. He is Chief Executive Officer and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair of the...

the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American women...

PIE base *med- "to measure, limit. Cf. Greek medos "counsel, plan", Avestan vi-mad "physician" "Medicine" Archived 11 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine...

initiative. The demonstration established incentives for quality improvement and cost efficiency. Ten large physician groups participated in the demonstration...

reform efforts, Which include compensating emergency physicians through "pay for performance" incentives and penalty measures under commercial and public...

Advantage plans cost tax-payers $9 billion more dollars than if beneficiaries were in original Medicare. This is due to a financial incentive for insurance...

training is a stage of graduate medical education. It refers to a qualified physician (one who holds the degree of MD, DO, MBBS/MBChB), veterinarian (DVM/VMD...

health records. The US Congress included a formula of both incentives (up to $44,000 per physician under Medicare, or up to $65,000 over six years under Medicaid)...