Tag Archives: payment systems

Mass. health costs still soar, NY Times spreads fallacy about fee-for-service health care

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

The fundamental problem in health care is not that we are using too much of one payment mechanism (e.g. fee-for-service) and too little of another. The problem is that the person who benefits from the service is not the same as the person who pays the bill. Continue reading →

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“Health care” bill threatens your health care

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

Paul Hsieh, MD describes how “bundled payments” give doctors perverse incentives misaligned with your best interest: One planned cost-cutting measure will be a new system of “bundled payments” where hospitals and physicians receive a fixed fee to take care of … Continue reading →

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