New payment model explicitly consistent with UFT-A principles has
been developed!
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The need to improve quality in the American health care system has never been more urgent.
Yet current initiatives, including "pay for
performance" programs, are not yet generating desired improvement in health care.
A major reason is the failure of policy, markets and regulation to engage physicians,
arguably the most significant drivers of what care is delivered. James L. Reinertsen, M.D. and Alice G. Gosfield Esq., have joined in a project which
unites their unique backgrounds, expertise and perspectives in an effort to improve health
care through a stronger business case for quality that will engage physicians. Based on a
proposal that posits how to use clinical practice guidelines to drive physician payment
and many other aspects of the health care system, their theory is now set forth in a major
white paper, "Doing Well by Doing Good:
Improving the Business Case For Quality" which proposes five core principles
which can revolutionize health care delivery by creating a unified approach to
payment, documentation, billing, institutional organization, and more through evidence
based medicine and patient-centered care.
This website, a listserve, their publications, speeches, presentations and consulting are intended
to move this theory to application (a "Unified Field Theory-Applied") UFT-A.
Please explore our website and consider how we can improve health care through this work.
