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The Transformed Map of a Recovering Management Accountant

Deming Institute

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Tom Johnson, an economist and self-described “recovering management accountant,” is well known for his early contributions to the traditional accounting profession. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders.

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Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care

Harvard Business Review

At the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center Practice, we conducted a project to design and deliver care more customized to the needs of individual patients while reducing cost and resource constraints. Care for these patients could potentially be managed and monitored in the lower-cost NSPCU environment.

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

The procedures and resources in the bundle would include pre-op appointment and testing, use of the operating room and facility services on day of surgery, surgeon, anesthesiologist and support staff, clinic visits, in-hospital drug and laboratory tests, and post-surgical physical therapy. The bundle incorporated the metrics in two ways.

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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. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys.

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Getting Bundled Payments Right in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Building on the BPCI program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in July 2015 announced a proposal called the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacements (CCJR) program to mandate the use of bundled payments for knee and hip replacements in 75 metropolitan areas beginning in 2016. Data on Outcomes and Costs.