Goodbye Fee-for-Service! How To Prepare?

Thursday, August 2, 2012
Almost 300 c-level health care executives attended the 2012 OPEN MINDS Planning & Innovation Institute (PII) in New Orleans and most of those executives have built careers in organizations that have sustained themselves by being reimbursed on a per-unit-of-service basis. But it appears that fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement is on the wane (see OPEN MINDS Senior Associate, Daniel Patterson's presentation, Is Your Staff Ready For Bundled Payments & Capitated Rates?: Re-engineering Your Clinical Processes ).

Without the "more is better" thinking that flows from FFS payment, provider organizations need to . . .