The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), a grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has released the second in a series of reports examining ways to reform the healthcare payment system to improve quality and reduce costs.
Titled From Volume to Value, the report offers an explanation of problems with the current payment system, and explains alternatives that could solve these problems without placing the kinds of restrictions on physicians and patients that caused many managed care initiatives to fail a decade ago.
The information in the report was originally prepared for NRHI’s 2008 Summit on Healthcare Payment Reform. At that summit, more than 100 healthcare leaders from across the country developed recommendations on how to implement the improved payment systems described in the report.
Read the report.
