Health Care Reform

Indeks : p.202 - 207 ; Building upon the strengths of managed care, it offers a refreshing approach for the future of healtcare.In chapter 1, Kurt Wrobel will delve into the nature of risk and why it is so important to understand its true economic dynamics as they should play out in health care. Chapter 2 will discuss the concept of an episode of care and what its full potential could be for the healthcare industry, In chapter 3, Arnold Milstein will cover the question of provider-driven reengineering of care, an activity made far more likely and profitable if care is reimbursed . Chapter 4, that focused factories are the preferable corporate model for accomplishing this. Chapter 5, Joane H. Goodroe demostrates how a successful episode reimbursement program can be executed. Chapter 6, and Tomas Valdivia, Abir Sen, and I will lay out how episode networks should operate in Chapter 7; Michael Pine and Joan Pine, in chapter 8, will elaborate on the necessity of developing separate information channels on provider performance beyond the usual claims data. Chapter 9, Francois deBrantes will discuss why employers are becoming interested in moving toward episode reimbursement; in chapter 10, I will review past attempts by payers to implement global pricing for episode of care.