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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. Patients with an optimal start received, on average, one more follow-up visit (5 vs. 4) with the nephrologist.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

To obtain an understanding of the costs, the center is applying a combination of two management tools: process mapping from industrial engineering and activity-based costing from accounting. Specifically, the center wants estimates of: The costs of caring for groups of patients with similar conditions.

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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.