Policymakers and industry are looking for opportunities to drive quality, create savings, and slow cost growth in the healthcare system. In particular, stakeholders are increasingly focused on value and increasing the use of treatments, products, and services that are both clinically effective and efficient. In fact, by 2018 the Department of Health & Human Services intends to link 80 percent of Medicare payments to value, and 50 percent to alternative payment models like bundled payments.
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