Hospital Readmissions

Common Utilization Measures That Impact Value-Based Care Efforts

July 20, 2023 - Quality and quantity have a nuanced relationship in the healthcare system: put simply, payers want to reduce members’ quantity of low-value services while increasing the number of services that produce better quality care. As a result, utilization measures that track the use of high- and low-value care are critical to a value-based structure. The triple aims of...

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