Lowering Costs and Improving Quality in Health Care through Incentives

Abstract

The problem discussed in these briefing charts is: High and rapidly rising costs in the MHS. Want to slow cost growth without sacrificing quality. Question: How can we use incentives to achieve this goal? Patient and provider incentives are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 26, 2011
Accession Number
ADA556286

Entities

People

  • Jonathan Gruber

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Body Weight
  • Cost Reductions
  • Costs
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Operations
  • Military Medicine
  • Motivation
  • Standards
  • Teamwork
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

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