Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

PAM 2070: Value Spending & Variations, Variations - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Net value of medical carer increased by $113k per elderly person
- - - - This should be seen as "principled value enhancement" which promotes high value medical care;
- - - - Influenced the affordable care act which cut back on medical spending
    - - Medicare patients received a lot of medical services
      - What overall conclusions did this help build ?
        
        high spending regions have more capacity for care; more hospital beds, more physicians per capita than low spending regions
        
        Eventually more medical care harms patients
        
        How is this being helped?
        
        Choose Wisely campaign for doctors to use common sense
    - - This demonstrates how MDs have widely varying treatment styles
      - What is the dartmouth group explanation?
        
        lack of scientific evidence to guide cisions crreates uncertainnty for physicians
        
        physicians believe that more care is better
        
        physicians are rewarded in a fee-for-service system
        
        primary care refers to specialists who use expensive medical technology
        
        SUMMARY: Tendency to use technology supported by revenue; more capacity pushes patients to more expensive path