25 Aprill 2016 - To control health care spending and improve quality, public and private payers in the US are increasingly moving away from fee-for-service toward global payment contracts with pay-for-performance.

To date, global payment has been centered on the role of primary care physicians coordinating all care, including specialty care. In 2016, Medicare plans to begin a new contracting model for cancer care that may serve as a model for specialty-based global payment.

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