The Patient Empowerment Initiative aims to align reimbursement within the Swiss inpatient tariff system more closely with the quality of care and patient outcomes. By linking financial incentives to treatment quality and patient benefit, the initiative seeks to reduce underuse, overuse, and inappropriate care while rewarding high-quality clinical decision-making and outcomes.

Based on the principles of Value-Based Healthcare, the initiative explores how quality-oriented reimbursement can be implemented within the Swiss tariff system. Its long-term goal is to introduce a dynamic base rate that incorporates both treatment volumes and quality outcomes, thereby integrating outcome measurement directly into reimbursement.