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01-10-2016 | Value-based Healthcare
Value-based Healthcare: Part 1—Designing and Implementing Integrated Practice Units for the Management of Musculoskeletal Disease
Authors:
Aakash Keswani, BA, Karl M. Koenig, MD, MS, Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 10/2016
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Excerpt
Patients, payers, providers, and policymakers have expressed a need for care delivery models designed around patient-centered value, and are actively pursuing payment structures to encourage this approach in musculoskeletal care. When analyzed with respect to value (defined as health benefits that accrue to patients per healthcare dollar spent), most current models of practice fall short due to: (1) An inability to measure outcomes that truly matter to patients, (2) limited transparency around the clinical and financial outcomes that are measured, and (3) a lack of care coordination across providers involved in the patient’s musculoskeletal care cycle [
4]. …