title: Pricing and paying for proactive care.
abstract: Now that proactive health services are increasingly being paid for by third parties, entirely new bases for and kinds of pricing are being practiced. New options becoming common include: Pay-for-performance bonuses. Bonuses based on achieving disease-specific or risk-specific outcomes. Gainsharing arrangements.
authors.affiliation: scottmacstra@earthlink.net
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: MacStravic
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005249:Fees and Charges; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States