All of which speaks to the huge need for more systemic changes around payment reform.
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But a recent study by Catalyst for Payment Reform found that only 11 percent of payments to hospitals or doctors are in any way dependent on good quality or safety.
But thanks to competition from Castlight Health, Change Healthcare and others, they are getting better, says Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform, which represents large employers pushing for price transparency.
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Will Senator McConnell accept a Boehner down-payment on tax reform which includes new static tax revenue on job creators, providing Bush-era tax rates are continued on everyone into 2013?
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"This is a substantial down payment for health-care reform, " one senior administration official said of the president's plan.
It was billed as a mechanism to stop the trillion-dollar deficit madness and a down payment on entitlement and tax reform.
The first big idea that he stresses is the creation of a new agency to spearhead innovation and scale up any of the many pilot schemes contained in the bills that manage to reform delivery or payment systems.
Washington-style health reform centralizes health care payment and delivery around big hospitals, big medical practices and big insurers.
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We made a down payment on that with health care reform last year.
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It includes a historic commitment to comprehensive health care reform, a down payment on the principle that we must have quality, affordable health care for every American.
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Congressional Republicans announced on Friday their intent to link the widely supported House bill to repeal the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) with a more partisan medical malpractice reform bill.
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In addition, a report issued by the Government Accountability Office in July cast doubt on several legislative proposals to reform the agency, especially one that would lower the down payment requirement for FHA insurance.
At Intel, we track health reform in 22 countries, and we see a global trend toward collective payment paying groups of providers to manage the health of a population based on value rather than volume of procedures.
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As part of any larger reform, the Congress should consider granting the Federal Reserve explicit oversight authority for systemically important payment and settlement systems.
The UK government has said the Welfare Reform Bill would save billions of pounds by replacing Disability Living Allowance with a personal independence payment and replacing a range of other benefits with a single universal credit.
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