Sentences with phrase «system reform incentive»

August 11, 2014 Webinar — Community Engagement in the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP) On behalf of Medicaid Matter NY (MMNY), Schuyler Center hosted a webinar, Community Engagement in the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program, featuring Jason Helgerson and Greg Allen.

These are set up under New York State's DSRIP (Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment) program.

«We are implementing a quality improvement program funded by the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program.

In his new position, Introne will provide counsel on matters related to the health department's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program, the spokesperson said.

His legacy will be inexorably linked to the state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, an $ 8 billion Medicaid waiver from the federal government that seeks to both reduce avoidable hospitalizations by 25 percent and provide health systems across the state with the resources they need to transition to value - based care.

The state's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment, or DSRIP, program, is a five - year project during which the federal government is making available up to $ 6.4 billion for providers across the state.

One of the most persistent complaints with the health home program — as well as the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, the State Health Information Network and others — is a lack of timely and reliable information about the patients.

The largest is the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program, or DSRIP, a $ 6 billion pot of money that will be distributed to health systems across the state.

Oneida County Department of Mental health is part of a Performing Provider System (PPS) under New York State's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program.

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In «Comparing Nest Eggs: How CPP Reform Affects Retirement Choices,» authors Alexandre Laurin, Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle find that once the interaction of these age - based CPP adjustments with the tax system is taken into account, some lower - income Canadians will still have financial incentive to retire early, because they face penalties if they don't.

I am thankful for the progress that has been made in reforming the health care system, securing nuclear weapons, repealing «Don't Ask Don't Tell, ending the practice of torture, reforming mandatory minimum prison sentences, withdrawing from Iraq, and creating green jobs and incentives.

Following Sir George Cox's review on short - termism, we will change takeover rules, and corporate incentives and reform our tax system to stop short - term asset - stripping and support long - term investment.

«With that kind of absolute control, there's no incentive for the people in control to reform the system, because it works for them,» Lerner says.

«Iain Duncan Smith is right to be looking at the perverse incentives in the current system, but with the welfare bill so high, cutting the deficit requires more radical reform.»

He argued this would encourage reform of the party funding system by creating a greater incentive for a broader base for party funding, rather than the current reliance on a smaller number of bigger donors.

At a time of dire fiscal shortages, and suggested cuts to education and healthcare, it is critical to reform the system which creates the perverse incentives for politicians to pass such inequitable tax policies.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

While the entire system of grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked into is funding for energy research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.

Toward the end of its review of the commission's work, the task force states, «Education reform will only come about in the United States when the delivery system itself is reconstructed around clear principles, sound ideas and learning - centered rules, incentives and power relationships.»

The reform of the U.S. higher education system did not come from a government mandate or «incentives.»

Yet, as with welfare reform, our federal system offers invaluable opportunities to explore different approaches to incentives, monitoring, and delivery.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

Given the powerful incentives that are in place, there is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators, like those found in nearly all other professional employment settings.

«Gates, Walton, and Broad are driven by theories of action that emphasize structural reform» such as systems, incentives, and measures, says Andrew Rotherham, co-founder of Education Sector and author of the Eduwonk.com blog.

Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Linda Darling - Hammond's The Flat World and Education, Richard Rothstein's Class and Schools, Daniel Koretz's Measuring Up, Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap, and Deborah Meier's In Schools We Trust, among many others, are notable for their opposition to incentive - based reforms.

Moe, for reasons I'll explain in a moment, thinks «reform unionism» is a pipe dream and that the only effective way to drive school improvement is by getting the system incentives to emphasize performance — which requires measures of student learning.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

In recent years, states and districts have responded to federal incentives by instituting major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems.

They should also promote a system of incentives and rewards for teachers who contribute positively to the reform effort.

The current reform model, as it has evolved over the past twenty years, is based on the curriculum standards embodied in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) document adopted in 1997, on which the entire edifice is built — the curriculum, the assessments, the teacher preparation, and the incentive system.

Duncan's biggest idea is market - oriented: He seeks to provide incentives for reform, offering billions of dollars to states and school systems willing to take risks to solve problems that have vexed generations of educators.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

However, this incentive to retire earlier is already changing without any public policy reforms because companies are moving away from defined benefit pension systems and toward defined contribution systems.

Other proposals that could promote more work at older ages include expanding phased retirement options and reforming pension and defined contribution systems to create incentives to work and save.

To keep the Social Security system financially solvent, several policy reforms have been proposed, including reducing retirement benefits, increasing the retirement age, raising taxes, offering incentives to delay retirement, and encouraging individual retirement savings.

Today, fossils fuels are cheaper than renewable energy, though a reformed energy tax system will help make renewable energy a more attractive incentive because of lower taxation.

«Limiting awards for subjective, noneconomic damages is one means to reduce incentives for bringing meritless lawsuits,» says McKinney, «and that's a step in the right direction when it comes to reforming our civil justice system.»

The review, Digital Opportunity, led by Cardiff University's Professor Ian Hargreaves, calls for the creation of a unified European patent system, and for patent fees to be reformed so there is no longer an incentive to create «thickets» or multiple layers of patents.

They include: (1) regulatory law and enforcement work, because industries from banking to private equity funds to large oil companies will likely be targets of the new administration, while health insurance companies will be subject to heightened regulation; (2) litigation, because a Democratic administration will probably push back tort reform measures, giving rise to more lawsuits; (3) «green» law, i.e., representing companies that deal in green technology, whose growth will be stimulated by likely tax incentives as well as a cap and trade system; and (4) real estate, because the bailout legislation will most likely require banks availing themselves of the benefits to begin issuing mortgages again.

For example, mandatory court - based mediation rules, judicial dispute resolution initiatives, case management regimes, pre-trial conferences, and cost - based settlement incentives have all become central pillars of the modern civil justice system and its reform.

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State reforms and integrated health delivery systems in some regions are providing incentives for population health approaches, facilitating collaboration in healthy neighborhood initiatives.94 Collaborators with health care organizations may include education systems, social services, faith - based groups, and community development organizations.

To keep the Social Security system financially solvent, several policy reforms have been proposed, including reducing retirement benefits, increasing the retirement age, raising taxes, offering incentives to delay retirement, and encouraging individual retirement savings.