To reduce inducement, the payment scheme could be changed from fee for service to prospective payment or a combination of both, a strategy that has been shown to be more effective in inducing the desired behavior rather than when used separately.
The Park Service has reduced artificial inducements to visit the park, such as the Firefall, in which red-hot embers were pushed off a cliff near Glacier Point at night.
Thus before any general policy to reduce or prevent inducement is implemented an extensive research that covers the other metropolitan city in the country plus other municipalities would be required.
The new bodies unleashed by the Health and Social Care Act – clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) – are offering GPs enormous financial inducements to reduce the number of visits made to emergency departments and admissions (bizarre when they have no control over out-of-hours care).
One of the laws, intended to protect consumers, says that a hospital cannot knowingly make a payment to a doctor "as an inducement to reduce or limit services" to Medicare or Medicaid patients.
Last month's proposed changes struck a blow to Think's plans by reducing California's inducements to manufacturers who offer small vehicles like the Neighbor and the City, while increasing the credits for hybrid-power and fuel-cell vehicles.
The authority rates all but three of the basin's 23 river valleys as being in a poor ecological state.To stop more water from leaving the rivers, the federal government allocated about A$3 billion ($2.9 billion) to be spent over ten years on inducements for farmers to reduce water use and adopt more efficient forms of irrigation.
In my last few years as a GP, financial inducements were pushed on us to reduce prescribing, and several other schemes were suggested that I regarded as unethical.
They felt that undue inducement arguments were sometimes used to reduce or deny participants benefits: "…if I were to decide for this study about the benefits to be given, having been at these households, I would have a very long list of cheap things we can give the households and they would appreciate.
Representative Robert Livingston of Louisiana, then a rising Republican leader, declared that the inducements would "create thousands of jobs" and "reduce the deficit".
