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Document 0174
DOCN M9550174
TI The impact of physician financial incentives on high-risk populations in
managed care.
DT 9505
AU Hillman AL; Center for Health Policy, Leonard Davis Institute of Health;
Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
SO J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol. 1995;8 Suppl 1:S23-30.
Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/95136008
AB The challenge of managed care is to design a system in which rules and
incentives together create a system of checks and balances that ensure
both efficient and high-quality care. Incentives need to be administered
so that physicians--both primary care providers and specialists--are not
forced to choose between personal and/or organizational financial
viability and patients' care. To accomplish this goal, payment needs to
be linked both to quality and productivity and appropriately
risk-adjusted. Quality assurance programs must ensure that both
efficient and high-quality care is being provided and must maintain the
satisfaction of both physicians and members. AIDS patients may be harmed
by a system in which the more services a physician performs, the more he
or she is paid--the traditional way in which American health care has
been delivered heretofore. Managed care may undermine the care of
high-risk patients if it arbitrarily reduces the high volume of care
they require. However, a managed care system with effective checks and
balances on financial incentives and quality of care can ensure that an
efficient and high standard of care is being met--across all
populations, including both healthy and high-risk patients.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*ECONOMICS/THERAPY Comparative Study
Diagnosis-Related Groups Evaluation Studies Health Status Indicators
Human Managed Care Programs/*ECONOMICS/TRENDS Physician Incentive
Plans/*ECONOMICS/TRENDS Prospective Payment System Quality of Health
Care Reimbursement Mechanisms United States JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).