A Utah Perspective
Former Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell is now the president/CEO of the Utah Hospital Association. In a January 2017 editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune, Bell explores how payment reform may impact Utah. Bell argues that congressional inaction could limit hospitals and doctors’ ability to provide healthcare in Utah, especially for rural and low-income Utahns.
Access the original Salt Lake Tribune Op-ed: "Any ACA repeal must restore funds for hospitals" here.
Accelerate Editorial Team
We asked Zac Watne, Utah’s payment innovation manager (he gets paid to understand the volatile world of payment reform) to give us a primer on “bundles.” Regardless of change happening in health care, thought leaders predict that payment reform, and specifically, bundled payments, are here to stay. Why? Bundles deliver care with improved outcomes at a lower price all over the United States. In this post, Zac outlines the difference between voluntary and mandatory bundles.
Utah “holds a unique distinction” when it comes to health care, according to a special report by the New England Journal of Medicine.
Finding evidence to change the status quo isn’t easy; thinking about evidence in terms of how it persuades—whether subjective or objective—can make it easier. Plastic surgery resident Dino Maglić and his colleagues followed their guts and saved money by improving the laceration trays used to treat patients in the emergency department.
