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Health Services Misuse , Hospital Planning/economics , Marketing of Health Services/economics , Motivation , Product Line Management/economics , Ambulatory Care Facilities/statistics & numerical data , Choice Behavior , Emergency Service, Hospital/economics , Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Health Services Needs and Demand , Humans , Marketing of Health Services/methods , Organizational Objectives , Product Line Management/methods , United StatesABSTRACT
Healthcare organizations should ensure that their quality, cost, and patient satisfaction measures allow them to compete with their rivals. Organizations need to offer proactive health management services to succeed in the marketplace. Organizations need to employ a value-based operation model to survive.
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Health Expenditures , Health Facilities , Quality of Health Care/economics , Consumer Behavior/economics , Financial Management , United StatesABSTRACT
Pay for performance is expected to become widely implemented. Two critical issues in P4P are how much money is involved and what measures of performance the programs will pay for.
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Physician Incentive Plans/organization & administration , Quality Assurance, Health Care/economics , Reimbursement, Incentive , Quality Assurance, Health Care/organization & administration , United StatesABSTRACT
Now that proactive health services are increasingly being paid for by third parties, entirely new bases for and kinds of pricing are being practiced. New options becoming common include: Pay-for-performance bonuses. Bonuses based on achieving disease-specific or risk-specific outcomes. Gainsharing arrangements.
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Delivery of Health Care , Fees and Charges , Preventive Medicine/economics , Quality Assurance, Health Care/economics , United StatesSubject(s)
Community Participation , Marketing of Health Services , Humans , Models, Organizational , United StatesSubject(s)
Consumer Behavior , Hospital Administration/methods , Marketing of Health Services/methods , Product Line Management/methods , Consumer Behavior/economics , Hospital Administration/standards , Humans , Marketing of Health Services/trends , Medical Records Systems, Computerized , Product Line Management/trends , Quality Indicators, Health Care , United StatesABSTRACT
The healthcare continuum can be divided into stages that move from cause to effect. Each stage is a potential place to focus on improving the management of our healthcare system. The key is to make proactive care profitable for providers without making it too expensive for all other affected stakeholders.
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Continuity of Patient Care/economics , Health Care Reform/methods , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Disease Management , Economics, Hospital , Health Care Reform/economics , Humans , United StatesSubject(s)
Marketing of Health Services/methods , Medicine , Patient-Centered Care , Specialization , United StatesABSTRACT
"Loyalty rewards" in sponsored DM and HRM programs can apply to both providers and consumers. Physicians and hospitals can be paid to "loyally" adhere to payers' guidelines for managing diseases and risks. Many payer and their outsourced vendor programs include significant efforts to create collaborations between payer and provider, rather than relying on unilateral efforts. And growing numbers are rewarding providers for their efforts and results achieved.
