The RAND Health Care Payment and Delivery Simulation Model (PADSIM) Concepts, Methods, and Examples

• Main Author: White, Chapin (auth)
• Other Authors: Liu, Jodi L. (auth), Zaydman, Mikhail (auth), Nowak, Sarah A. (auth), Hussey, Peter S. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2016
• Subjects: Database design & theory; Medicine: general issues; Medicolegal issues; Health Sciences; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This report describes RAND's Health Care Payment and Delivery Simulation Model (PADSIM), developed to more effectively analyze the impacts of current and future reforms to provider payment policy, such as changes in how much providers are paid for their services and the degree to which payments...