Forbes Insights: Getting From Volume to Value in Health Care
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Value-based purchasing, where cost and quality are each integral parts of the equation, is now widely seen as a replacement for traditional fee-for-service reimbursement. For senior hospital and health system executives, the challenge is getting from the-way-things-have-always-been to the-way-things-will-be without tumbling into a fiscal chasm because of the-way-things-are-now.
Getting From Volume to Value in Health Care: Balancing Challenges & Opportunities examines the issues and concerns vital to chief executive officers, chief financial officers and chief medical officers who are charged with leading their institutions on that quest. While as a group they are cautiously optimistic and endorse the goals that value-based purchasing seeks to achieve, they know that the path is neither straightforward nor obstacle free.
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