There is widespread agreement that the current healthcare fee-for-service payment system needs to be to be revamped. Providers are currently reimbursed more when they supply more service and inefficient care, irrespective of outcomes, instead of better, lower-cost methods of treatment.
Today, more than ever, a significant amount of attention is being spent on finding ways to improve health care quality and health outcomes while controlling health care cost growth.
What new strategies for payment restructuring most effectively address the current fee-for-service problems?
Join Healthcare Reimbursement Monitor and the foremost thought leaders in healthcare payment reform for the audio conference and webinar, “What’s Ahead for Healthcare Reimbursement: Are You Ready for the New Payment Models and Initiatives?” that took place in April 2008.
Agenda
- New strategies for payment restructuring
- Creating payment systems to accelerate value- driven healthcare
- 12 goals that revised payment systems need to effectively address the current problems
- Examples of new payment initiatives and the results to date
- Update on the Medicare reform initiatives
- How the emerging consumer market can create marketplace competition
- How tiered networks are used to highlight variations and drive market share based on multiple dimensions of provider
- How common objections to new payment systems can be overcome
- Case Study: How Patients Choice Healthcare encourages providers to compete for consumers based on cost and quality
- Question and answer session
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