Value-Based Health Care
Publications
- 20 Nov 2020
Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal conduit surgical episode cost drivers
by Janet Baack Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H.a,b, Mohamed A. Seif, M.D.a, Marissa W. Mery,
M.D.c,
James R. Incalcaterra, Ph.D.d, Ashish M. Kamat, M.D.a, Colin P. Dinney, M.D.a,
Jay B. Shah, M.D.e, Thomas W. Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D.
Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based on the people involved in providing care for specific events.... |
- June 2021
The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial Credit
by Junaid Nabi and Robert S. Kaplan
The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it will be removing more than 250 musculoskeletal surgeries from its “inpatient-only list” in January 2022. An additional 1,500 surgeries will be eliminated in the following year. The change... |
- 01 Feb 2021
Health Care Measurements that Improve Patient Outcomes
by Robert S. Kaplan, PhD, MS, Lara Jehi, MD, MHCDS,
Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS, FASCRS, Andrea Pusic, MD, MHS, FACS, FRCSC,
Mary Witkowski, MD, MBA
This article describes the challenges and solutions in determining whether a patient’s treatment has been successful. Such an assessment depends on multiple factors, including the patient’s pretreatment status; the qualifications of personnel performing the treatment;... |
- 01 Jan 2021
Integrated Practice Units: A Playbook for Health Care Leaders
by Michael E. Porter, PhD, MBA, Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc
The playbook for assembling and integrating a successful Integrated Practice Unit (IPU) features several key steps, including defining the patient condition or set of related conditions to be served, as well as defining patient needs across the care cycle and mapping... |
- 01 Jul 2020
Assessing the Training Costs and Work of Diagnostic Radiology Residents Using Key Performance Indicators – An Observational Study
by Michael E. Porter, PhD, MBA, Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc
The playbook for assembling and integrating a successful Integrated Practice Unit (IPU) features several key steps, including defining the patient condition or set of related conditions to be served, as well as defining patient needs across the care cycle and mapping... |
- 17 Jun 2020
Six Tests for Physicians and Their Leaders for the Decade Ahead
by Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc, Toby Cosgrove, MD
In the years immediately ahead, physicians and their leaders must move to a new level of health care in which they reliably deliver the performance that society needs. To enable and ensure success, significant changes will be required. A set of six tests for physicians... |
- June 2020
Are cost advantages from a modern Indian hospital transferable to the United States?
by F. Erhun, PhD, a,b R. S. Kaplan, PhD, c V. G. Narayanan, PhD, c K. Brayton, MD,
JD, MS, a M. Kalani, MD, a M. C.
Mazza, PhD, a C. Nguyen, MD, MS, a T. Platchek, MD, a B. Mistry, MD, MBA, c R. Mann,
BA, a D. Kazi, MD, MS, d
C. Pinnock, MD, MPH, a K. A. Schulman, MD, MBA, a J. Xue, MD, MPH, a D. Ballard, MD,
MSPH, PhD, FACP, e
M. Mack, MD, e B. James, MD, a,f G. Poulsen, MBA, f J. Punnen, MD, g D. Shetty, MD,
g and A. Milstein, MD, MPH
Rationale and Objectives: To quantify the costs and work of diagnostic radiology (DR) residents using the radiology key performance indicator turn-around time (TAT) as the outcome measure. Materials and Methods: In an Institutional Review Board-approved study, the... |
- April 2020
- New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst
The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology
by Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter
As the diffusion of value-based health care efforts accelerates globally, the need for interoperable information technology systems that support value-based care is essential. A value-enabling IT platform must organize data around conditions. |
- February 2020
2020 TDABC Starter Kit
by Professor Robert Kaplan and Dr. Syed Shehab
This article is designed for new partners to help initiate TDABC projects. It reviews the basic concepts of value-based health care and how a motivated team can undertake a cost measurement project in their own institution. |
- January 2020
- Academic Medicine
Value Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education
by Jessica Holtzman, Bhushan Deshpande, Jessica Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski,
Edward Hundert, and Jennifer Kasper
The authors present a novel, VBHC curriculum integrated into a required course for post-core clerkship students—launched in 2018 at Harvard Medical School and taught in conjunction with Harvard Business School faculty—that highlights key principles of VBHC. |
- December 2019
- Journal of Medical Systems
Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI)
by Olivia Allin, Richard D Urman, Angela F Edwards ,Jeanna D Blitz ,Kurt J Pfeifer,
Thomas W Feeley, and Angela M Bader
A shift in healthcare payment models from volume toward value-based will require deliberate input into systems development from both perioperative clinicians and administrators to ensure appropriate recognition of the value of all provided services. |
- November 2019
- The Leapfrog to Value Initiative
Value-Based Care in Low and Middle Income Nations
As the concept of value-based health care is rapidly diffusing world wide, this working paper demonstrates how low and middle income nations can embrace value-based care and accelerate universal health coverage. |
- November 2019
- The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Reviews
A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement
by Olivia Manickas-Hill, Thomas W. Feeley, and Kevin J. Bozic
Multiple pilot studies evaluating cost and quality using a bundled-payment model in joint replacement have demonstrated reductions in Medicare payments, primarily from decreased hospital LOS and post-acute care utilization. |
- October 2019
- New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst
Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support
by Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi, and Robert S. Kaplan
In this study the authors sought to apply a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. |
- August 2019
- Health Affairs
Navy Medicine Introduces Value Based Health Care
by Alee Hernandez, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, C. Forrest Faison and Michael
E. Porter
In 2016, the Surgeon General of the Navy launched a value-based health care project at Naval Hospital Jacksonville. The project’s goals were to demonstrate how a value approach could improve naval readiness and lower cost. |
- June 2019
- JAMA Internal Medicine
Evaluation of Economic and Clinical Outcomes Under the CMS Mandatory Bundled Payments for Joint Replacements
by Derek A. Haas; Xiaoran Zhang; Robert S. Kaplan and Zirui Song
A study of the initial results of the pilot of mandatory bundled payment for joint replacement in patients on Medicare. |
- April 2019
- Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes
Unlocking the potential of value-based health care by defining outcome measures that matter to patients with cardiovascular diseases
by Seligman WH, Salt M, la Torre Rosas A, and Das-Gupta Z
- Mar 2019
- Anesthesia & Analgesia
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Appropriateness: An Interdisciplinary Consensus-Based Approach.
by Robert S. Kaplan, Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, et.al.
- Mar 2019
- Journal of Medical Economics
Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care Setting with Optimal Performance
by Robert S. Kaplan, Rohit A. Bobade, Richard A. Helmers, et.al.
- March 2019
- Am J Kidney Dis
Development of an International Standard Set of Value-Based Outcome Measures for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Report of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) CKD Working Group
by Verberne WR, Das-Gupta Z, Allegretti AS, et.al.