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HCI3 collaborated with CHC to design, implement, and measure a bundled payment program for maternity care, and the experience—both during the process of executing year one of the pilot, and upon review of the first year’s outcomes—yielded insights valuable to other health care leaders. The observations and recommendations detailed in this case study include:
- The challenge of...
Focusing on improving care holds the potential to save money for payers and ultimately improve patient outcomes.A critical step toward those dual goals is to identify variation in the cost and quality of asthma care, and isolate opportunities for improvement.
That is what we have done in this analysis, using PROMETHEUS Analytics.© We distinguish “typical” care from potentially...
Sixty-nine patients took part in PEBTF’s yearlong bundled payment pilot and the experience yielded meaningful lessons, described in detail throughout this case study. Under the bundled payment program for total hip and total knee replacements:
- The hospital facility and orthopedic practice involved instituted a robust and highly collaborative program of care improvement ...
The benefits of transparency are only realized if consumers attend to and use the information in making choices. We know from years of experience and decades of research with health care quality transparency efforts, that the way in which information is displayed and presented can make a difference in whether it is understood and used.