Int J Soc Determinants Health Health Serv
October 2023
Current forms of payment of independent physicians in U.S. health care may incentivize more care (fee-for-service) or less care (capitation), be inequitable across specialties (resource-based relative value scale [RBRVS]), and distract from clinical care (value-based payments [VBP]).
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January 2013
Hawaii Med J
December 2010
This article introduces a promising new health care financing proposal for physician payment called Balanced Choice. It summarizes the implications of health care economics and current well-publicized health care reform proposals, each of which is problematic for physicians and their patients. The Balanced Choice proposal is for an integrated two-tier national system, which has an economically efficient universal plan similar to single-payer, but with an option for enhanced services using market forces at the doctor-patient level to manage care.
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