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Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients

Harvard Business Review

If they had more time (and in some cases, motivational skills), they could better persuade patients to make the sacrifices and hard choices to change their lifestyles and to follow the recommended treatment plan. The costs of such extra time would be repaid many times over, often by orders of magnitude, through fewer future complications.

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

The Motives of the Pilot’s Members. The Harvard researchers believed that their expertise in value-based health care delivery could help the physicians and the insurer construct a superior BP contract in which the insurer paid a lower price, providers preserved their financial margins, and patients enjoyed superior outcomes.