The Affordable Care Act deserves a solid "A" for including virtually every cost control idea anyone has come up with — limits on tax breaks for employer-sponsored health insurance, accountable care organizations, bundled payments, comparative effectiveness analysis, a commission to regulate payments, reforms in insurance design and much more.
On a systemic level, this illiteracy directly impedes our ability to institute meaningful health policy reforms that tackle such thorny issues as quality-based physician payments, comparative effectiveness guidelines or end-of-life care.
Second, all stakeholder groups highly value a positive effect of payment reform on effectiveness and patient safety.
Given that this is how Apple is tying authentication into its ApplePay mobile payment strategy, the effectiveness of TouchID is important.
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Despite extensive use of payments to healthcare professionals for patient recruitment to trials, a systematic review showed that payments had limited effectiveness in improving both quantity and quality of recruitment[ 31].
All: Payments are done, without considering the effectiveness of the payment, in all regions.
To shed light on the overall effectiveness of payment schemes, and its determinants, we review counterfactual-based empirical evaluations, comparative analyses of case-studies, and meta-analyses.
A review study of results-based payment found that the effectiveness of such programs is highly variable [ 57].
Policy makers should regularly demonstrate, based on the targets that physicians care about, that payment reform indeed improves effectiveness and patient safety, albeit often in subsequent incremental steps.
