Forty Percent of Payment to Physicians and Hospitals in the Commercial Sector Today is Designed to Improve Quality and Reduce Waste

Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) today released the 2014 National Scorecard on Payment Reform. The 2014 version of this annual Scorecard indicates commercial health plans have dramatically shifted how they pay physicians and hospitals, with 40 percent of their payment now designed to encourage health care providers to deliver higher-quality and, in some cases, more affordable care.

The National Scorecard on Payment Reform uses data submitted by commercial health plans on a voluntary, self-reported basis to eValue8, the National Business Coalition on Health’s annual request for information to health plans. The plans responding to the Scorecard questions represent 65 percent of the commercially-insured lives in the U.S.

You can read more about the 2014 Scorecard here and access the complete Scorecard online.