Description: Explanations of terminology used in healthcare payment systems
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The Healthcare Payment Glossary
The methods used to pay physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers can make it difficult for them to deliver care to patients in the highest-quality, most affordable way. One of the barriers to solving these problems has been the complex and confusing array of terminology that is used to describe different payment systems. It is difficult for stakeholders to determine whether to support a proposal if they do not understand the words and abbreviations used to describe it, and it is difficult to re
The Healthcare Payment Glossary is intended to facilitate a better understanding of the terminology used in healthcare payment systems and to create a foundation for all stakeholders — patients, providers, employers, health plans, and government agencies — to reach consensus on how to reform healthcare payment.