Reforming payments to healthcare providers: The key to slowing healthcare cost growth while improving quality?

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-92

  McClellan, Mark ^a  

^a Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; REWARD; UNITED STATES;

COST CONTROL; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; REWARD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957512404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 08953309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.25.2.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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