The video entitled “Health Quality Summit: Promoting Quality through Payment Redesign,” which was filmed from the US Department of Health and Human Services National Summit on Health Care Quality and Value on October 4, 2010, is a nearly hour-long panel discussion that encompasses the types of payment methods currently in...

Over the past several decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the cost of healthcare. At the end of the year 2015, the cost of healthcare in the United States was estimated at $3.2 trillion. This is a very sharp increase from the cost recorded in 1960 of about...

Disaster response is an essential element in order to ensure the health of the population. However, there are strong differences in how disaster responses are organized. The onset of the event directly influences the actions taken by public health departments. According to the World Health Organization (2013) “slow-onset events include...

IntroductionThe health sector in Australia loses millions of dollars through fraudulent means every year. The large amounts of money that are swindled to the pockets of people hurt the insurance industry by forcing people to set high premiums. A majority of these cases result from the illegitimate allocation of funds...

Healthcare reimbursement incorporates capitation, salary, fees for service (FFS), diagnosis-based payment and Pay-for-performance (P4P). The reimbursement mechanisms are critical in the effectiveness of the health care system which is one of the key functions of the federal and state governments (Britton, 2015). As currently constituted, the reimbursement mechanisms exhibit both...