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  Value-Based Care is About Improving, Not Denying Care

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, February 21, 2017

  Many of these alternative payments, including bundled payments, are referred to as “value-based.” Value-based care, put simply, is care that prioritizes good health outcomes. Value-based payments reward these good health outcomes, while the more prevalent fee-for-service payments, whether intentionally or not, reward volume of services performed.

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  Managing Behaviors in Bundled Payments: Patients, Physicians, and Organizations

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, October 25, 2016

  Although many people write about implementing bundled payments, few articles provide a level of detail about what works and how to administer key aspects of care redesign within a physician group practice. As a follow-up to a previous article on setting expectations, Jason McCormick, Manager of Process Improvement at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics in Germantown, TN, shares another key approach to a successful bundled payment program: managing behaviors. Campbell is one of the orthopedic groups we,