With or without Health Policy, reimbursements are tightening for hospitals. They have to learn how to not just become more efficient, but also improve the quality of care. We profiled a leading-edge health system that asked the hard question: Could we survive on Medicare payments alone? They looked at every service as if they were only paid Medicare dollars and found extreme clinical variation among its nine hospitals. A plan was put in place to improve operations.
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