21% Of Medical Care Is Unnecessary. Here’s How We Prevent It.
"Healthcare has had no star score, there's been no reliable pricing. It's all been just a black box." - Will Bruhn
An estimated 21% of all medical care in the U.S. is completely unnecessary. My guest this week is Will Bruhn, CEO and Co-Founder of GAM (Global Appropriateness Measures), and he joins the show to explain exactly where that waste comes from and how we can fix it.
Will argues that we've been measuring quality wrong. Instead of just looking at outcomes (did the surgery go well?), we need to measure appropriateness (should the surgery have happened at all?). We discuss the perverse…
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