Study outlines strategies to test new payment models for health ...

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Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 09/28/2009 - 22:00

(RAND Corporation) A new study outlines methods that might be used to test a novel payment system for medical care known as "episodes of care" that would provide doctors, hospitals and other health providers a set fee for treating an ailment such as hip replacement surgery.


 

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