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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

ICCI serves as a center of excellence for measuring the outcomes that are most important for patients, significant for clinicians, and suitable for value-based reimbursement contracts. After surgery, these same tools will be used to direct the intensity and duration of rehabilitation needed to attain the functional goals set by the patient.

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

The team’s goal was to be as inclusive as possible in specifying the patient population while incorporating the appropriate risk adjustments. The bundle incorporated the metrics in two ways. Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals. Selecting the Patient Population.

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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. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Insight Center.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

These efforts were part of the providers’ quest to increase the value of their care delivery — in other words, achieve better outcomes at the lowest-possible cost. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you.

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Getting Bundled Payments Right in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Consistent with Value Based Health Care principles , HOI and RI measure and track their outcomes and costs for every patient’s cycle of care. Both organizations measure and excel at standard quality metrics such as length of stay, infection rates, readmission rates, complication rates, and HCAHPS patient-satisfaction scores.