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A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result that is contrary to the intentions of its designers. The cobra effect...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

our future. To protect themselves from legal prosecution U.S. physicians have an incentive to order clinically unnecessary tests or tests of little potential...

state-led National Population Program, which emerged from the military's Plan Verde, initially aimed at economic recovery and combating the Shining Path...

The fee-for-service (FFS) physician incentive structure makes it easier for SID to occur since it rewards the physician for increasing the quantity...

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

Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was the incentive that included over $20 billion for the implementation of HIT alone, and...