Value-Based Payment Modifier Timeline Year Action 2012 CMS provided confidential feedback reports to all successful PQRS participants to demonstrate the type of information that will be used to calculate the VBM 2013 Initial performance period began for large group practices only (>100 eligible professionals) 2014 Performance period begins for group practices with >10 eligible professionals. 20...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to identify any distinct behavioural patterns in switching between public and privately insured payment classifications between successive episodes of inpatient care within Western Australia between 1980 and 2001 using a novel 'couplet' method of analysing longitudinal data. METHODS The WA Data Linkage System was used to extract all hospital morbidity recor...

In this paper, we investigate the problem of determining a retailer’s optimal cycle time and the optimal payment policy when supplier offers partially or fully permissible delay in payment linking to payment time. The retailer can obtain the larger fraction of the delay payment permitted by the supplier when the retailer chooses the shorter delayed payment period. The supplier uses this policy ...

abstract introduction: the amount of waiting time is an indicator of level of access to hospital services and can be measured as one of the indicators of the effectiveness of hospital performance. this study aimed to determine the average waiting time in shahid rahnamoon and afshar clinics. methods: this descriptive, analytical, cross – sectional study was conducted with a simple size of 264 pa...

How does the structure of a series of payments influence its recipient's satisfaction? A common hypothesis is that each payment will be compared with a single "standard" or "reference" payment (e.g., the average payment). Cognitive models of judgment such as range frequency theory predict in contrast that the entire payment distribution will influence evaluation of each individual payment. Two ...

BACKGROUND To present an overview of the clinical negligence claims for ophthalmology in the National Health Service (NHS) in England from 1995 to 2006. To compare ophthalmic subspecialties with respect to claim numbers and payments. METHODS All the claims on the NHS Litigation Authority database for ophthalmology for the period 1995 to 2006 were analysed. Claims were categorised by ophthalmi...

When Congress created the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) for hospitals in 1983, it established separate standardized payment amounts (national average costs per Medicare case) for inpatient services provided by urban and rural hospitals. The urban standardized amount was 25.3 percent greater than the rural standardized amount. This variation in payment was challenged by rural health ...