title: Managing costs through clinical quality improvement.
abstract: Care-based cost management (CBCM) is an approach to managing costs that relies on improving clinical quality. The premise of CBCM is that providers have exhausted their ability to lower costs associated with traditional cost drivers: personnel, equipment, supplies, and other large expenses, such as information technology. Therefore, financial managers should focus on alternative organizational cost drivers: Processes of care. Complications. Social issues.
authors.affiliation: North Mississippi Health Services, Tupelo, Miss., USA. kdavis@nmhs.net
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Otwell
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barber
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D017721:Hospital Costs; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States