Meanwhile, 63 percent of the surveyed leaders in healthcare and healthcare policy believe providing a risk-adjusted capitation payment arrangement to ACOs will be very or extremely effective.
Seventy-three percent support using value-based benefit design, in which cost-sharing for individual services varies, based on established effectiveness and potential benefit of a treatment or service.
Seventy-three percent support basing rewards for salaried physicians on both quality and prudent resource-use.
Sixty-eight percent support use of reference pricing for services, in which payors cover a drug, device or service based on the lowest price of equally effective treatments.
Fifty-three percent of leaders support using tiered networks, in which premiums for enrollees vary based on the level of spending by hospitals, physicians and other providers they choose.
Seventy-one percent feel it is important for all payers to use the same basic method of rewarding providers.
Read the Commonwealth Fund survey of payments.
Read more coverage of payments:
–BCBS Says It Will Not Cover Physician Phone Calls in Massachusetts
–Surgeons, Generalists Disagree on Ways to Reform Reimbursement System
–10 Recommendations on ACO Regulations From Premier’s Collaborative
