Applying quality principles to orthopaedic surgery.
The unsustainable rising cost of medical care is creating financial pressures that will critically alter the way that health care is paid for and delivered. Limited resources dictate that physicians must become more efficient at providing high quality care. In an effort to provide financial incentive for delivering quality care, the federal government instituted value-based purchasing to transform Medicare from a passive payer of claims to an active purchaser of medical care. Healthcare providers must follow the basic tenants of certain quality principles to maximize reimbursement under the value-based purchasing system.
Medical Resident, Internal Medicine, New York University, New York, New York.
Gregory
G
Katz
Crispin
C
Ong
Lorraine
L
Hutzler
Joseph D
JD
Zuckerman
Joseph A
JA
Bosco
D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States; D062505:Value-Based Purchasing