Prospective payment for primary care: lessons for future models
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Taylor, Erin, author Bailit, Michael, author Sayles, Jennifer, author
- Contributor(s):
- Milbank Memorial Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Milbank Memorial Fund, September 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Reimbursement Mechanisms -- trends Primary Health Care -- economics Prospective Payment System United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Realizing a vision for advanced primary care in the United States will require adopting new payment strategies. The predominant payment scheme under which primary care practices operate--and their primary source of revenue--is fee-for-service payment. However, fee-for-service is not structured to support or sustain a comprehensive primary care system. Prospective payment for primary care is an alternative payment model that can facilitate care delivery transformations to better manage population health. It offers practices a predictable source of revenue, independent of the units of traditionally billable services, and the flexibility to manage care within a budget to optimize outcomes for a population of patients. Earlier primary care prospective payment models, such as those commonly employed in the 1990s, offer lessons and insights for designing a prospective payment for primary care that will facilitate the delivery of comprehensive, coordinated, and patient-centered primary care.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (21 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918349988806676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918349988806676