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A Simple Way to Involve Frontline Clinicians in Managing Costs

Harvard Business Review

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. The following tools constitute the basic building blocks of the value-management system.

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It’s Time for Episode-Based Health Care Spending

Harvard Business Review

And because it focuses on acute episodes, REBP acts as a necessary complement to payment and care-delivery models designed to improve prevention and chronic-care management. In short, REBP can serve as a bridge to more comprehensive total-cost-of-care approaches. pharmaceuticals, physical therapy, skilled nursing facility care).