CMWF-Toward a Shared Vision of Payment Reform

The white paper by Meredith Rosenthal, Ph.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health, reviews five presentations that were delivered at a conference on payment reform in the fall of 2010. Rosenthal identifies six common elements among the various global payment reform efforts:

• Transparency (to providers and patients)
• Flexibility
• Tailored to local circumstances with respectful engagement of physicians
• Undertaken through pilots, with evaluation and dissemination of best practices
• Accompanied by timely data sharing by payers to providers and throughout referral networks
• Supported by resources adequate for providers and payers to make the transition to new models