The impact of value-based payment reform on medical expenditures, fees and volume of services
Value-based payment reform helps ensure that payments from governments and insurers provide incentives to support provision of high value healthcare.
This research evaluates the early effects of the first major review of the Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), the MBS Review, that subsidises medical services provided by general practitioners (GPs) and non-GP specialists in private practice.
A key objective of the MBS Review was to increase the provision of value-based health care.
We evaluate the overall impact of changes implemented in the first five years of the review on total medical expenditures, volume of services, and fees.
Presented by
Professor Anthony Scott, University of Melbourne
Prof Scott is a Program Co-ordinator, ‘Health and Healthcare’ research theme at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Aberdeen.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Past President of the Australian Health Economics Society, and a Board Director of the International Health Economics Association.
He has been an ARC Future Fellow and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. He holds visiting positions at the University of Aberdeen and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and has been a Visiting Scientist at Harvard School of Public Health.
His research interests focus on the behaviour of physicians, health workforce, incentives and performance, primary care, and hospitals. He has consulted and provided advice to the World Bank, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Productivity Commission, Medibank Private, and Commonwealth and State Departments of Health. He leads the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) panel survey of 10,000 physicians, and is a Research Lead Investigator on the NHMRC Partnerships Centre on Health System Sustainability.
CHE Seminar Series
As part of our Centre's vibrant research culture, we host a weekly seminar series. Visiting and invited researchers present current research relating to the economics of health and wellbeing, and the healthcare sector. Visitors are welcome to join these sessions, where discussion and debate is encouraged.
Event Details
- Date:
- 27 July 2022 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Venue:
- Hybrid (in-person and online). Caulfield campus Building H, Level 9, Room H9.02. See Zoom link below.
- Categories:
- Health Economics; CHE Seminar
Description
Value-based payment reform helps ensure that payments from governments and insurers provide incentives to support provision of high value healthcare.
This research evaluates the early effects of the first major review of the Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), the MBS Review, that subsidises medical services provided by general practitioners (GPs) and non-GP specialists in private practice.
A key objective of the MBS Review was to increase the provision of value-based health care.
We evaluate the overall impact of changes implemented in the first five years of the review on total medical expenditures, volume of services, and fees.
Presented by
Professor Anthony Scott, University of Melbourne
Prof Scott is a Program Co-ordinator, ‘Health and Healthcare’ research theme at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Aberdeen.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Past President of the Australian Health Economics Society, and a Board Director of the International Health Economics Association.
He has been an ARC Future Fellow and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. He holds visiting positions at the University of Aberdeen and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and has been a Visiting Scientist at Harvard School of Public Health.
His research interests focus on the behaviour of physicians, health workforce, incentives and performance, primary care, and hospitals. He has consulted and provided advice to the World Bank, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Productivity Commission, Medibank Private, and Commonwealth and State Departments of Health. He leads the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) panel survey of 10,000 physicians, and is a Research Lead Investigator on the NHMRC Partnerships Centre on Health System Sustainability.
CHE Seminar Series
As part of our Centre's vibrant research culture, we host a weekly seminar series. Visiting and invited researchers present current research relating to the economics of health and wellbeing, and the healthcare sector. Visitors are welcome to join these sessions, where discussion and debate is encouraged.