The Affordable Care Act encourages these developments as it drives toward a reimbursement system that strives to keep people out of hospitals through more coordinated, cost-efficient care paid on the basis of results, not services.
Perioperative physicians are challenged to evaluate traditional practices to ensure coordinated, cost-effective, and evidence-based care.
New models for providing access to timely, coordinated, cost-effective specialty care are needed.
In fact, the law does many small things; the latest is the grant program announced last week to teach Medicare and Medicaid doctors new ways to offer higher-quality, better-coordinated, more cost-effective care.
Establishing a consensus-based research agenda would make a specific contribution to conducting such research activities in a more coordinated, coherent, and cost-effective manner.
By identifying this population of CCC patients, we will be able to better evaluate the experiences of technology-dependent and transplanted children, examine their patterns of health care utilization, and design programs to provide coordinated, efficient, and cost-effective care.
29 However, costs of coordinated care at anticoagulation clinics vary widely; in a review of 29 studies, the cost of a single INR monitoring test ranged from $6.19 to $145.70200606 US dollars).
Integrated health systems that are organized into "one-stop shops" for patient care, like the Cleveland Clinic and the Geisinger Health System in rural Pennsylvania, may in some instances already provide the cost-effective, coordinated care of an accountable-care organization.
If several power stations can use a coordinated network, the transportation costs can be lowered.
That work, by the bipartisan State Health Care Cost Containment Commission (organized by the University of Virginia's Miller Center) examines how the governors and legislators "can transform the current health-care system into one that is more integrated, coordinated, patient-centered and cost-effective".
