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...Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...providers have in common are the creative ways they're doing away with fee-for-service and replacing it with an imaginative mix of systems that cost less, keep patients healthier and make doctors happier. "We need a transition to rewarding the actual value of care," says Dr. Elliott Fisher, director of population health and policy at the Dartmouth Institute. "For now, our payment system is getting in the way." (See the Cleveland Clinic's smarter approach to health care...
...matter of the doctors themselves. Physicians may want to get off the fee-for-service carousel, but salary-plus-incentives means that sometimes you won't meet your targets and your paycheck will dwindle. And some docs may chafe at being hitched to a team. One sweetener Dartmouth's Fisher recommends is forgiving some medical-school debts - an idea Obama endorsed at an Oct. 5 photo op with doctors, though in his plan, the break would be limited to those who agree to work in underserved or rural markets...