In a recent speech, Alex Azar, the U.S. secretary of health and human services, said, “There is no more powerful force than an informed consumer.” What about an informed provider? If health systems are truly going to improve the value of the care they deliver, they need to enlist doctors in the effort. According to a national survey conducted by University of Utah Health, 89% of physicians believe the overall cost of health care in this country is too high. Now we need to give doctors a chance at engaging in the conversation by developing tools to make cost transparent to them.
To Enlist Physicians in Reducing Costs, Show Them the Costs
University of Utah Health developed a tool to do it.
May 03, 2018
Summary.
If health systems are truly going to improve the value of the care that they deliver, they need to enlist doctors in the effort. According to a recent national survey conducted by University of Utah Health, 89% of physicians believe the overall cost of health care in this country is too high. Now we need to give doctors a chance at engaging in the value conversation by developing tools to make cost transparent to them. For the past five years, University of Utah Health has been working on a tool that does just that.
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