Incentives to follow Best Practice in Health Care

"OHE has published a Briefing by Karlsberg Schaffer, Sussex and Feng summarising the evidence on incentives that encourage providers of health care to follow guidance on best practice, particularly where that guidance requires the use of specific medicines or other health technologies. These incentives include monetary and non-monetary rewards."

Incentives to follow Best Practice in Health Care

S Karlsberg Schaffer, J Sussex, Y Feng
Office of Health Economics
February 2015

Read more here (registration required).

The Next Generation of Incentives to Help Doctors Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care (podcast)

"To improve decision-making at the health care provider level, policies that blend financial and non-financial incentives are being developed and tested. A new initiative called Incentives 2.0 is exploring this new type of payment reform."

The Next Generation of Incentives to Help Doctors Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care
S Hausman
The Commonwealth Fund
Oct 2014

Access the podcast here.

Towards an NHS payment system that does more for patients

"If commissioners pay providers of NHS services too little, they won’t be able to afford to give the high standards of care that patients need and have the right to expect. If commissioners pay providers too much, they may lose focus on keeping their costs under control. We also won’t get as much care as we could for the amount of taxpayers’ money that is being spent."

Towards an NHS payment system that does more for patients
Monitor, NHS England
October 2013

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Government efficiency

In order to continue to improve efficiency in the public sector, governments should focus on four key areas:

1. pursuing innovative practices linked to efficiency; 
2. scaling the use of efficient practices;
3. improving the use of established measurement and analytical tools to generate actionable insights;
4. and strengthening management incentives to become more efficient.

This report, although focusing on efficiency in the Government of the United Arab Emirates, provides guidance for all governments around the world.

Government efficiency
United Arab Emirates in collaboration with Deloitte
February 2013

Read more here.

Reforming incentives to promote evidence-based decisions at the point of care

"This paper adds an important perspective by describing how current financial incentives in the 
fee-for-service system lead to the overuse and underuse of services at the point of care by physicians and other clinicians."

Paying wisely: reforming incentives to promote evidence-based decisions at the point of care
EC Rich, T Lake, C Stone Valenzano
Mathematica Policy Research
October 2012

Read more here.