A paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research examines what might maximize the impact of health behavior incentives.
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The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute issues a report summarizing findings regarding incentives to change physician and patient behavior.
Both providers and consumers are increasingly subjected to positive and negative inducements to behave in certain ways. An article in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine explores some possible behavioral and ethical rules for the design of patient-oriented incentive programs.
Value-based insurance design attempts to use cost-sharing to maximize use of health services that lead to good health outcomes. Two recent analyses demonstrate that cost-sharing features of health care coverage can lead to good and bad outcomes.