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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

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. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

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Measuring and Communicating Health Care Value with Charts

Harvard Business Review

Some leading proponents of health care reform have argued that the goal of any health care system should be to deliver the most value to patients : the outcomes achieved for treating a medical condition relative to the costs incurred over a complete care cycle.