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The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute is dedicated to a simple idea: positively shaped health care incentives increases both efficiency and quality of care. We have developed programs and resources to help payers and providers quantify and capture their opportunities through incentive design. We have also built learning networks to help spread all innovative designs and programs to encourage knowledge and adoption of value-based payment.

Incentives Highlights

CMMI Bundled Payment Resources

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative pilot is a bold, broad and flexible approach to moving the country away from fee-for-service and into value-based payment. We've assembled information and tools to help prospective pilots take part.

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Will the Latest Payment Trend Improve Care?

Pay-for-Performance programs are now firmly ensconced in the payment systems of US public and private insurers across the spectrum. More than half of commercial health maintenance...

Study Finds Improved Focus on Population Management and Chronic Illness Cuts Inpatient Days and Emergency Room Visits

Objective: To study the cost and utilization performance of primary care physicians (PCPs) with and without a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) designation or a Bridges to...

The original idea for a medical episode is laid out here. 

The usual measures used to document use of medical services were found insufficiently penetrating in a utilization study...