The Urban Institute has issued two new papers with background information on health care payment methodologies and the design of health care benefits packages.
The first paper, Payment Methods: How They Work, describes nine payment methodologies:

• fee schedules
• primary care capitation
• per diem payments to hospitals for inpatient visits
• DRG-based payments to hospitals for inpatient visits
• global budgeting for hospitals
• bundled payments
• global capitation for organizations
• shared savings
• pay for performance

The second paper, Benefit Designs: How They Work, explains seven different types of benefit designs:

• value-based design
• high-deductible health plans
• tiered networks
• narrow networks
• reference pricing
• centers of excellence
• benefit design for alternative sites of care

A third paper, Matching Payment Methods with Benefit Designs to Support Delivery Reforms, describes how to match benefit designs with payment methods.
Go here to find Payment Methods: How They Work.
Go here to find Benefit Designs: How They Work.
And go here to find Matching Payment Methods with Benefit Designs to Support Delivery Reforms.