The Mayo Clinic Policy group released this paper a few days ago. Although the intent is laudable when one gets into the details it doesn’t work. Read the article first and then our commentary. 1. It’s easy to say that “V=Q/C” but that assumes you can measure Q and C in comparable units, and that’s at the […]
Francois de Brantes who recently visited ThedaCare writes in Health Affairs about Prometheus, a new payment model which has been featured on this web site recently. Prometheus aims to reward providers for delivering better quality not quantity. It is a payment initiative which is being piloted in several different markets in the U.S. and is […]
Q. How Does Government Pay for Healthcare Reform? A: Increased taxes and cuts in provider reimbursement On Saturday morning, President Obama released information (below) outlining his plans to finance health reform coverage via new Medicare and Medicaid cuts over the next 10 years. This “savings” amounts to $313 billion on top of earlier FY2010 budget […]
The president was in Green Bay yesterday to develop support for his healthcare “reform” proposal the cornerstone of which is a 1.2 trillion dollar increase in total healthcare spending. The good news is he came to the right state. As pointed out in the following Washington Post editorial if everyone got their care in Green […]
The core message the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value has been delivering since our inception is that all of our efforts in delivering health and care to the customer should be focused on what is valued by that customer, our patient. Dr. Milstein’s article sheds light on the reluctance of many providers in the U.S. […]
Value is defined as quality divided by cost. We are hearing a lot in Washington about improving value of our health care delivery but law makers don’t have documented examples of this or an understanding of how value is created. Last week there were forty people from all over North America representing thirteen health care delivery organizations committed to […]
Donald M. Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan and John Whittington describe how linked goals are the key to creating a high-value healthcare system in this issue of Health Affairs. Click here
