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Alliance for Health ReformJune 12, 2012
Scott P. Serota, President & CEO
Blue Innovations:What’s Working?
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Strategies to Bend the Cost Curve
Payment Incentives
Partnering withClinicians
Engaging Patients
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Changing Payment Incentives
• Prevented 42 wrong-site surgeries
• hospital-acquired infections
• Saved up to $57M fromCentral-line infectionsMRSA cases
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Changing Payment Incentives
• 6% readmissions
• 17% inpatient admissions
• $26M radiology savings
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Partnering with Clinicians
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• 15% readmissions
• 50% inpatient stays > 20 days
• $15.5M annual savings
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Engaging Patients
• 32% bypass readmissions
• 21% angioplasty readmissions
• $2,200-$2,500 cost savings per procedure
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