Dividing a trillion-dollar pie
Quinn, K.
Healthcare Financial Management Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 58(4): 60
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732 PMID: 15098290 Document Number: 570696
Four trends are likely to dominate development of healthcare payments in coming years: Consolidation and dissemination of new methods used by Medicare to pay for outpatient hospital care, skilled nursing care, home health care, and specialty hospital care. A return to 1990s-style struggles over risk allocation between providers and private-sector payers. Growing experimentation with paying for quality, especially in the hospital sector An uneven pace of change, reflecting shifts in bargaining power and technical challenges in designing and implementing new methods.