RevCycle Intelligence February 14, 2018
Clinicians agreed that care guidelines are key to improved patient care, but providers were less confident that reducing practice variation would decrease healthcare costs.
Clinicians strongly agreed that providers should be responsible for reducing healthcare costs, but fewer clinicians felt that decreasing practice variation would lower costs, a recent Plos One study uncovered.
The survey of over 170 physicians, 60 nurse practitioners, and 12 physician assistants found that on a scale of one to six, with one representing strongly disagree and six representing strongly agree, clinicians only rated reducing practice variation as a means to lower healthcare costs 4.4 points.
But practice variation is linked to wasteful healthcare spending, research shows. Unwarranted practice variation contributed to about 42 percent of...
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