To reduce healthcare spending, hospitals and health systems strive to reduce variation in the utilization of certain treatments and medical services. Verras has increased the consistency of ...

Sepsis, a potentially-life threatening complication of an infection, affects roughly 750,000 Americans each year and costs more than $22,000 per patient to treat, according to Verras. Verras analyzed ...

The frequency of low-value care can be reduced by a respectful, data-driven process anchored in nonjudgmental communication and explicit core values. The cost of health care in the United States is ...

Yale New Haven Health launched a major initiative four years ago to reduce variation in care at the health system's four acute-care hospitals and outpatient sites. Yale New Haven Health is seeking to ...