All-Payer Rate Setting - Negotiating Health Care

Countries That Use All-Payer Rate Setting Spend Less Than Us on Health Care By Igor Volsky Over at the Incidental Economist, John Nyman, professor of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, expands on this suggestion that policy makers should look at Maryland as an example of how all-payer rate setting — in which payers negotiate with each provider for a single price for each service — can help reduce health care spending. Nyman places U.S. health care spending in an international context and argues that “you have a strong argument for a causal relationship” between rate-setting and lower spending: Read More:

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/07/21/275055/all-payer-rate-settings-spend-less/