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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Apr 2021
ReviewProcedural episode-based cost measures: anesthesia matters.
Episode-based cost measures (EBCM) is a method of combining all services related to a defined episode of care, identified as either a procedure, acute illness or chronic disease, and providing expected cost for that episode or bundle of care. Procedural EBCM has become a major scheme for payment methodology and patient quality of care evaluation. Anesthesiologists need to know how EBCM can impact their clinical practice. ⋯ EBCM can impact the anesthesiologist's quality performance, efficiencies measures, and payment. To preserve practice viability, anesthesiologists must understand how their compensation is impacted by services ordered. Anesthesiologists will increasingly be expected to improve quality and efficiencies in EBCM.