 | United States. Congress. Pepper Commission - 1990 - 32 pages
...delivery, rather than for "good" risks. * Extending "managed care" to small employers and including it as a means to provide the minimum benefit package...in turn, serves as a model for private insurance. * Directing the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the Physician Payment Review Commission... | |
 | United States. Congress. Pepper Commission - 1990 - 824 pages
...then gradually induce all providers to make steady improvements in both quality and efficiency. 3. Extending managed care to small employers and including...benefit package in private insurance and the public plan would encourage efficient service delivery. While the basic insurance reforms proposed by the Commission... | |
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Measures to promote efficiency in provider payment would include: * Cost-sharing in the minimum benefit package that makes consumers sensitive to price. * Insurance reform that leads insurers to compete around efficient service delivery, rather than competing... 