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Reforming Health Care: Fifth Brief in New Series Looks at Financial Incentives for Providers and Consumers
Media Advisory: May 25, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378
Show them the money. Health reform will emphasize financial incentives for providers and consumers to promote the use of effective health services and discourage use of marginally effective or inappropriate services. The fifth brief in a new series from Mathematica looks at evidence on the impacts of these financial incentives and draws lessons for policymakers.
The process of health care reform will require ongoing, creative thinking and vigorous dialogue among all stakeholders on important issues. Mathematica’s new series is intended to help policymakers understand the research base for the critical choices they will make in implementing the federal health reform law.
Forthcoming topics will include medical homes, provider payment reform, and other topics. To access all the titles in this series, click here.
"Financial Incentives for Health Care Providers and Consumers"
Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet, and Stephanie Peterson
About Mathematica: Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, provides a full range of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research, survey design and data collection, research assessment and interpretation, and program performance/data management, to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Ann Arbor, Mich., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C., has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, international, disability, education, family support, employment, nutrition, and early childhood policies and programs.