NEW CPR Action Brief

Most of us would like to revamp the way we pay doctors and hospitals entirely. But changing payment won’t happen overnight. In fact, while we work to innovate with new forms of payment, we will be living with the existing payment system, including fee-for-service (FFS), for quite some time. So, it pays to ask: “How can we improve it?”

Today, Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) released an action brief on reforms that seek to counter some of the perverse incentives rooted in our current approaches to payment. While these reforms are less far-reaching than bundled or global payment, they can reduce costs and increase value in the short term. Read more...