Name: Reforming Medicare by Reforming Incentives
Creator: Alain C. Enthoven
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, Economic Competition, 0302 clinical medicine, Cost Control, Health Care Reform, Managed Competition, 1. No poverty, Insurance Carriers, Fee-for-Service Plans, Health Expenditures

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 26 May 2011 English Publisher:Massachusetts Medical SocietyJournal:New England Journal of Medicine, volume 364, page e44 (issn: 0028-4793, eissn: 1533-4406,

Authors: Alain C. Enthoven;

doi: 10.1056/nejmp1104427

pmid: 21561341

Reforming Medicare by Reforming Incentives

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Abstract

Implementing managed competition among health plans for the Medicare population would fundamentally change the incentives in health care, forcing health plans to compete on value for money. Such incentives reform could well result in substantial cost reduction.

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Keywords

Economic Competition, Cost Control, Health Care Reform, Managed Competition, Insurance Carriers, Fee-for-Service Plans, Health Expenditures, Medicare, Reimbursement, Incentive, United States

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