Luz Saude, Portugal's largest private healthcare network, is attempting to implement value-based healthcare through the creation of “specialised multidisciplinary centres”, which focus on conditions such as headaches and diabetes, rather than specialties. From 10 today, the group aims to create 45 of these centres by the end of 2018. Doctors are systematically reporting, measuring and benchmarking quality outcomes - and measuring costs. In a presentation at Healthcare Business International 2016, Isabel Vaz, CEO of Luz Saude, said it was "only a question of time" before private insurers introduced pay for performance.
May 18, 2016
