The Potential for Cost Savings through Bundled Episode Payments
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- 22 March 2012
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 366 (12) , 1075-1077
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1113361
Abstract
A key question about aggregating payments to health care providers is determining whether to bundle services for individual, if extended, episodes of care or for whole patients. What are the tradeoffs of the two approaches, and how much money could be saved?Keywords
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