Cleveland Clinic’s Low Cost Health Care Model

Today is the age of innovation in healthcare. One of the pressing innovation needs, as healthcare costs zoom, is provision of low-cost healthcare.

Cleveland Clinic is showing the way for this paradigm in the US. The factors behind this?

1. The Clinic’s doctors are all on salary

2. There is no concept of fee for service -whether a cardiac surgeon performs one surgery or ten they get paid the same.

3. EMR (Electronic medical records) have been available since May 2008

4. An emphasis on preventive care that goes beyond health and wellness bulletins – A heart healthy cafeteria and a fully functional gym.

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