Being Quote by Ron Wyden

Doctors and hospitals should be paid for keeping their patients well. Paying them for doing more tests and surgeries creates bad incentives.

— Richard Thaler

We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world…

— John Sculley

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments…

— Mitch Kapor

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as…

— Atul Gawande

Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.

— Dean Ornish

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires…

— Atul Gawande

“Pay-for-performance will only raise costs if providers get higher pay for process compliance but do not have to compete on results.”

— Michael E. Porter

Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it…

— Michael Moore

Provide more service than what you get paid for

— Les Brown

“Medicare rewards doctors far better for doing procedures than for assessing whether they should be done at all.”

— Edwidge Danticat

Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that…

— Jack Canfield

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

— Herman Melville