While recent events have opened the door to gainsharing, the door is still just opened a crack. |
Medicare Part B and Medicaid payments to physicians generally are unaffected by a gainsharing arrangement. |
In true gainsharing arrangements, physicians are directly paid a portion of the savings. |
We also pointed out that the government, by encouraging gainsharing, was increasing the tax take from employees. |
Nancy Johnson led the charge to include the gainsharing demonstration in the final bill. |
Under the gainsharing pilot, those payments were aligned to ensure that hospitals and physicians would work together. |