Creating incentives to move upstream: Developing a diversified portfolio of population health measures within payment and health care reform

J. Auerbach

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 3, 427-431

Abstract: I examined the feasibility of developing a balanced portfolio of population health measures that would be useful within the current deliberations about health care and payment reform.

Keywords: economics; financial management; government; health care planning; health care policy; health care quality; health promotion; human; patient care; primary prevention; procedures; public health; purchasing; reimbursement; safety net hospital; standards; trends; United States, Federal Government; Financing, Government; Health Plan Implementation; Health Promotion; Humans; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Patient-Centered Care; Primary Prevention; Public Health; Quality Indicators, Health Care; Reimbursement Mechanisms; Safety-net Providers; State Government; United States; Value-Based Purchasing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302371

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