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ou can't put a price on a patient's life, but you can place
a value on safer surgical care. Consider that a recent 20%
reduction in general surgery complications over 5 years
at 72 Michigan hospitals lowered expenditures at the
facilities by $20 million. Darrell A. Campbell, Jr., MD,
chief medical officer at the University of Michigan Health System,
helps manage the hospital partnership, which is driven by a pool of
data on tens of thousands of surgeries and is backed by Blue Cross
and Blue Shield (BCBS) of Michigan.
"We've become a patient safety organization," says Dr. Campbell.
"This effort, designed by the people on the front lines of surgical care,
Are You Fully Invested in Patient Safety?
The movement toward value-based reimbursement makes posi-
tive outcomes more economically important than ever before.
• ON THE TABLE Using transparent data to help surgeons perform safer, more cost-effective surgery,facilities that spend less
for quality care are in line to see their earnings rise.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor