NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Anesthesiologists' Role in Value-Based Health Care

 

Chicago—The keynote speech at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists focused on the anesthesiologist’s role in value-based health care. One of the main points Michael E. Porter, PhD, MBA, economist and professor at Harvard Business School, in Boston, brought up was the value anesthesiologists can provide to patients and how they should deal with bundled payments.

We caught up with Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, professor of anesthesiology at Mount