Rising Health Care Charges: A Red Herring in a Value-Based Health Care World?

In the most recent issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, David J. Ballard, Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer at Mentice, and Baylor University’s Neil Fleming, analyze the implications of a recent study demonstrating a rise in hospital charges for surgical episodes despite the concurrent decline in the costs for those procedures: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Z9tH5qq8Jj6Y