New Report from NRHI on Making the Business Case for Payment and Delivery Reform

A new report from the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, Making the Business Case for Payment and Delivery Reform, provides a step-by-step guide to help businesses, physicians, hospitals, and other purchasers and providers design changes in the way health care is delivered that are both financially feasible for providers while saving money for purchasers.

The report describes a 10-step process for developing a business case to support successful reforms to both healthcare payment and delivery systems. Each of the steps is illustrated with a hypothetical example of how a business case calculation might be done for an initiative by a physician practice to improve care for patients with chronic disease in order to reduce avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

You can access the full report online.