Learn how an integrated delivery system designed, implemented, and assessed a new program to assure the highly reliable delivery of cardiac surgery care based on best practices and used the program to radically alter the reimbursement scheme using pay-for-performance principles to transferring risk from the payer to the providers.

After this presentation you will be able to:

• Describe the steps Geisinger used to create the ProvenCareSM program.
• Describe the characteristics of a clinical service that are important in judging its suitability forthe ProvenCareSM model.