Caring for the Costliest Patients: Better Care, Better Settings

Cost & Efficiency ... account for only five percent of patients but accrue more than 60 percent of health care costs. These ... resulting in costly health care, but not necessarily high-quality care. Aligning Forces for ...

Jul 31,2014

Feb (Consumer Engagement, Cost & Efficiency) ...

Feb 24,2014

Starting a Conversation about Value

Cost & Efficiency ... has much to do with rising health care costs. Many health conditions have many treatment options, some being more costly than others. One example is back pain. There are multiple treatment options, including ...

May 09,2013

How do consumers define fair benefit and network designs?

assured they are not sacrificing quality when choosing a lower-cost provider.    ... Consumer Beliefs and Use of Information (Cost & Efficiency, Community ...

Oct 02,2013

Green Light on Quality Improvement

Cost & Efficiency ... strategies. Dr. Thompson forecasts more and more efficiency metrics in which overall quality and costs are evaluated. “There’s certainly a market desire to have transparency around cost and tying quality to cost ...

May 07,2014

Bright Spot Millions of Americans undergo costly and often invasive diagnostic procedures each year. Sometimes these ... is a large contributing factor in the meteoric rise in health care costs. Read more about this ...

May 21,2012

Patient Experience Committee Group Conference Call

The Committee serves as a forum to advance the implementation of patient experience surveys by collaboratively seeking ways to lower costs and address other issues of concern. We have representation from each ... advance the implementation of patient experience surveys by collaboratively seeking ways to lower costs ...

Patient Experience Committee Group conference call- October 2012

The Committee serves as a forum to advance the implementation of patient experience surveys by collaboratively seeking ways to lower costs and address other issues of concern. We have representation from each ... seeking ways to lower costs and address other issues of concern. We have representation from each of the ...

health related costs and the impact to their bottom line. To support Alliances in educating – and ... illustrates the relationship between health care costs, quality and employee engagement – and the benefits of ...

Jul 23,2012

organizations, and others can use to educate health care consumers about the costs of care and steps they can take to better understand and manage those costs while still getting high-quality care.  The purpose of ...

Feb 21,2014