New Online Magazine Spotlights Emerging Episodes of Care Payment Model

Visit our new online magazine Making the Health Care System Work^SM that explores major health care topics in the national news and how we can all work together to improve the health care system. A recent article looks into moving away from the traditional fee-for-service model and toward viewing and paying for all the care associated with a single procedure or condition as one product.

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX), we believe that having access to affordable, quality coverage can make a positive and often profound difference in our members' lives.

This is one of the reasons we have launched Making the Health Care System Work , our new online magazine, to help tell our story and explore ways we can all work together to make the health care system work better for everyone. Insurers, providers, employers and members all have a vital role to play in finding bold solutions for the future.

In our recent online article - Should health care be a package deal? - we explore how the health care industry is moving toward viewing and paying for all of the care associated with a single condition or procedure, such as knee replacement surgery and rehabilitation, as one product. This new episodes of care payment model has all parties focused on cost and quality, something that is not happening enough in the current fee-for-service model.

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