Payment by Results (PbR) is a rules-based payment system in England under which commissioners pay healthcare providers for each patient seen or treated, taking into account the complexity of the patient’s healthcare needs.

PbR aims to promote efficiency, patient choice and incentivise best practice models of care.

PbR involves:

1. Capturing the number of service users treated.
2. Allocating each patient to a classification system.
3. Agreeing what should be provided for people in each cluster.
4. Agreeing a price for each group/cluster in the classification system that means providers can afford to deliver the agreed care.

Download:

• Mental health clustering booklet 2012-13
• Information on plans for PbR in 2013-14
• PbR Guidance 2012-13
• PbR Code of Conduct 2012-13
• PbR tariff information 2012-13
• Step-by-Step guide: calculating the 2012-13 tariff
• PbR and the Market Forces Factor in 2012-13