Association of a Bundled-Payment Program With Cost and Outcomes in Full-Cycle Breast Cancer Care.

Importance: Value-driven payment system reform is a potential tool for aligning economic incentives with the improvement of quality and efficiency of health care and containment of cost. Such a payment system has not been researched satisfactorily in full-cycle cancer care.

Objective: To examine the association of outcomes and medical expenditures with a bundled-payment pay-for-performance program for breast cancer in Taiwan compared with a fee-for-service (FFS) program.

A proposed framework for understanding the forces behind legislation of universal health insurance: lessons from ten countries.

Objective: To understand the forces propelling countries to legislate universal health insurance.

Data Source/study Design: Descriptive review and exploratory synthesis of historic data on economic, geographic, socio-demographic, and political factors.

Data Extraction Methods: We searched under "insurance, health" on MEDLINE and Google Scholar, and we reviewed relevant books and articles via a snowball approach.