Dr.Carlos Nunez, Chief Medical Officer at CareFusion explores trends and issues facing the healthcare industry and in respiratory care practices at CareFusion’s Online Center for Safety. In his most recent post, Dr. Nunez discusses the need for greater cost control in healthcare.
“A curious thing is happening. As the healthcare conversation moved front and center over the last several years, a correlation developed linking cost and quality. Politicians and providers,payors and patients have embraced these complementary themes as the “one-two punch” that will win the fight to keep our healthcare system safe, solvent and sustainable. As far as punches go, it sounds almost painless: Make the system better and safer, and the savings will follow. Who would argue with that logic?
Now it seems that some prominent voices have started to pivot the conversation toward the need for greater cost control, suggesting that quality and safety efforts alone may not deliver the necessary savings. Recently, three opinion pieces appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that call into question some basic assumptions about the economics of our health care system. Another article, published in Healthcare Finance News, added a new sense of urgency to this pivot in opinion.”
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