Health Care Economics: Analysis of a Bundled Payment System Versus A Standard Fee-For-Service Payment System

摘要

The Health Care reform has been a topic that has gained much attention in these past fewudyears and has been widely studied and criticized within the United States. It is one of theudbiggest issues in present day and one of the most prominent concerns is how to makeudhealth care more economically efficient. This paper is research-based as I investigateuddifferent types of payment methods within healthcare, specifically within Medicare.udSome of these payments are already widely used; others have only recently beenudimplemented, while others are completely new proposals. With the help of my thesisudadvisor, Dr. Joiner, I have found the necessary documents in order to successfullyudanalyze the differences and possibilities of a change from a fee-for-service payment to audbundled system payment. I discuss the potential economic benefit from changingudpayment method systems as well as breaking down the proposed alternative paymentudmethods that are being implemented, or may soon be implemented, within the UnitedudStates.