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
Primary Care Physicians' Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients: The Scope of Care Coordination Hoangmai H. Pham, Ann S. O'Malley, Peter B. Bach, Deborah Schrag	Feb. 17, 2009	Journal ArticleAnnals of Internal Medicine
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation by Physicians? Peter J. Cunningham, Ann S. O'Malley	Nov. 18, 2008	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs
Provider Payment Incentives and Delivery System Reform Paul B. Ginsburg	October 2008	Book Chapter
Getting What We Pay For: Innovations Lacking in Provider Payment Reform for Chronic Disease Care Ann Tynan, Debra A. Draper	June 2008	Research Brief No. 6
Paying Hospitals on the Basis of Nursing Intensity Paul B. Ginsburg	May 2008	Journal ArticlePolicy, Politics and Nursing Practice
Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule—Much Activity, Little Change Paul B. Ginsburg, Robert A. Berenson	March 22, 2007	PerspectiveNew England Journal of Medicine
Private Payer Roles in moving to More Efficient Health Spending Paul B. Ginsburg	March 15, 2007	Book Chapter
Care Patterns in Medicare and Their Implications for Pay for Performance Hoangmai H. Pham, Deborah Schrag, Ann S. O'Malley, Beny Wu, Peter B. Bach	March 15, 2007	Journal ArticleNew England Journal of Medicine
Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches Up, but Productivity Still Dominates James D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley	January 2007	Issue Brief No. 108
Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient Care Paul B. Ginsburg	Nov. 16, 2006	Journal ArticleNew England Journal of Medicine
Health Plan Pay-for-Performance Strategies Sally Trude, Melanie Au, Jon B. Christianson	September 2006	Journal ArticleThe American Journal of Managed Care
Losing Ground: Physician Income, 1995-2003 Ha T. Tu, Paul B. Ginsburg	June 2006	Tracking Report No. 15
11th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference	June 21, 2006	Conference Transcript
Effects of Compensation Methods and Physician Group Structure on Physicians' Perceived Incentives to Alter Services to Patients James D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley, Bruce Landon	April 2006	Journal ArticleHealth Services Research
A Growing Hole in the Safety Net: Physician Charity Care Declines Again Peter J. Cunningham, Jessica H. May	March 2006	Tracking Report No. 13
Can Money Buy Quality? Physician Response to Pay for Performance Thomas Bodenheimer, Jessica H. May, Robert A. Berenson, Jennifer Coughlan	December 2005	Issue Brief No. 102
Balancing Margin and Mission: Hospitals Alter Billing and Collection Practices for Uninsured Patients Andrea Staiti, Robert E. Hurley, Peter J. Cunningham	October 2005	Issue Brief No. 99
When the Price Isn't Right: How Inadvertent Payment Incentives Drive Medical Care Paul B. Ginsburg, Joy M. Grossman	Aug. 9, 2005	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs
Delivery of Preventive Services to Older Adults by Primary Care Physicians Hoangmai H. Pham, Deborah Schrag, J. Lee Hargraves, Peter B. Bach	July 27, 2005	Journal ArticleJournal of the American Medical Association
Access and Quality: Does Rural America Lag Behind? James D. Reschovsky, Andrea Staiti	July/August 2005	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs
Physician Incomes in Rural and Urban America James D. Reschovsky, Andrea Staiti	January 2005	Issue Brief No. 92
Primary Care Doctors Who Treat Blacks and Whites Peter B. Bach, Hoangmai H. Pham, Deborah Schrag, Ramsey C. Tate, J. Lee Hargraves	Aug. 5, 2004	Journal ArticleNew England Journal of Medicine
Changes in Medicaid Physician Fees, 1998-2003: Implications For Physician Participation Stephen Zuckerman, Joshua McFeeters, Peter J. Cunningham, Len M. Nichols	June 23, 2004	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs
Paying for Quality: Health Plans Try Carrots Instead of Sticks Bradley C. Strunk, Robert E. Hurley	May 2004	Issue Brief No. 82
Are Market Forces Strong Enough to Deliver Efficient Health Care Systems? Confidence is Waning Len M. Nichols, Paul B. Ginsburg, Robert A. Berenson, Jon B. Christianson, Robert E. Hurley	March/April 2004	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs
Financial Pressures Spur Physician Entrepreneurialism Hoangmai H. Pham, Kelly Devers, Jessica H. May, Robert A. Berenson	March/April 2004	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs
Focused Factories? Physician-owned Specialty Facilities Lawrence P. Casalino, Kelly Devers, Linda R. Brewster	November/December 2003	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs,
Can Hospitals and Physicians Shift the Effects of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement to Private Payers? Paul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 8, 2003	Journal ArticleHealth Affairs
Behind the Times: Physician Income, 1995-99 Marie C. Reed, Paul B. Ginsburg	March 2003	Data Bulletin No. 24
Financial Incentives and Physicians' Perceptions of Conflict of Interest and Ability to Arrange Medically Necessary Services Jeffrey Stoddard, Marie C. Reed, Jack Hadley	January 2003	Journal ArticleJournal of Ambulatory Care Management
Back in the Driver's Seat: Specialists Regaining Autonomy J. Lee Hargraves, Hoangmai H. Pham	January 2003	Tracking Report No. 7
Kinder and Gentler: Physicians and Managed Care, 1997-2001 Bradley C. Strunk, James D. Reschovsky	November 2002	Tracking Report No. 5