BUNDLED PAYMENTS

One payment for one episode of care

A bundled-payment model can reduce healthcare costs by encouraging greater integration of care teams and better use of existing services and technologies. Learn about the advantages of bundled payments from industry leaders, providers, and healthcare experts.

pdf 2017 VALUE-BASED HEALTH CARE FORUM (.pdf)

In a recent forum moderated by the Editor in Chief of Harvard Business Review, Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak, other senior Medtronic leaders, and professors Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School and Mark McClellan of Duke University discussed the role of bundled payments in the ongoing and essential shift to value-based health care. Bundled payments will foster more integrated care and stimulate competition among providers, resulting in better outcomes for patients at lower cost. Read the Forum summary and learn about bundled payments and other value-based models.

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pdf GETTING BUNDLED PAYMENTS RIGHT IN HEALTHCARE (.pdf)

The experiences of a specialty orthopaedic hospital and a private-practice physician group show how to successfully implement bundled payments for orthopaedic specialty care.

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pdf HOW BUNDLED HEALTH CARE PAYMENTS ARE WORKING IN THE NETHERLANDS (.pdf)

The Netherlands has experimented with bundled payments at the primary care level with encouraging results. Learn about the successes and challenges of the Dutch bundled-payment model.

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DISCUSSION HIGHLIGHTS THE ADVANTAGES OF BUNDLED PAYMENTS

Recently Medtronic sponsored a Harvard Business Review webinar featuring Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter. The discussion highlights the problem with a fee-for-service model. Hear why Porter and Kaplan consider bundled payments a solution to the “single biggest obstacle to improving healthcare delivery.”

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To facilitate the discussion of ways to improve healthcare, the Harvard Business Review produces a number of webinars on important topics. Download the webinar summaries or watch the webinar recordings to learn from those at the leading edge of healthcare reform. These webinars are sponsored by Medtronic.

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