The RAND Health Care Payment and Delivery Simulation Model (PADSIM) Concepts, Methods, and Examples

"This report describes RAND's Health Care Payment and Delivery Simulation Model (PADSIM), developed to more effectively analyze the impacts of current and future reforms to provider payment policy. These reforms include changes in how much providers are paid for their services and changes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: RAND Corporation (-)
Otros Autores: White, Chapin, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, California : RAND [2016]
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
RAND Corporation research report series ; RR-1428-RC.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35784180*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Why Do We Need Another Model?
  • Overview of PADSIM's Inputs and Outputs
  • 2. PADSIM's Structure and Key Concepts
  • Unit of Analysis and Scope of the Model: Crossing of State Boundaries
  • Defining the Volume of Services
  • Payment Policy
  • Equilibrium Concept
  • Congestion
  • Residuals
  • 3. Historical Data: Methods and Sources
  • Historical Data on Hospitals
  • Historical Data on Physicians
  • Historical Data on Patients
  • Population Projections
  • Behavioral Parameters
  • 4. Operating PADSIM
  • 5. Examples of Simulation Results
  • Pre-MACRA Baseline
  • Baseline with MACRA
  • Repeal the Sequester
  • Projections of Payment Rates and Prospectiveness
  • Simulation Results
  • Appendix
  • References.