The patient-driven payment model: addressing perverse incentives, creating new ones

Mark Aaron Unruh; Dhruv Khullar; Hye-Young Jung

doi:10.37765/ajmc.2020.42831

The patient-driven payment model: addressing perverse incentives, creating new ones

Am J Manag Care. 2020 Apr;26(4):150-152. doi: 10.37765/ajmc.2020.42831.

Authors

Mark Aaron Unruh, Dhruv Khullar, Hye-Young Jung¹

Affiliation

¹ Weill Cornell Medical College, 402 E 67th St, New York, NY 10065. Email: arj2005@med.cornell.edu.

PMID: 32270981
DOI: 10.37765/ajmc.2020.42831

Abstract

The Patient-Driven Payment Model addresses perverse incentives in Medicare's previous payment system for skilled nursing facilities, but it includes new incentives that may be problematic.

MeSH terms

Humans
Medicare / economics*
Models, Economic
Prospective Payment System / economics*
Quality of Health Care
Reimbursement Mechanisms / economics
Reimbursement, Incentive / economics
Skilled Nursing Facilities / economics*
Skilled Nursing Facilities / statistics & numerical data
Subacute Care / economics*
Subacute Care / statistics & numerical data
United States