Question: one thing we haven’t touched on yet are the delivery system reforms, which are a big part of the law. what’s an experiment or change that has overperformed your expectation, and what hasn’t panned out as you’d hoped?
Answer: one that’s worked better than we’d expected — or at least as well as we’d expected —was the issue of hospital readmissions. now, it turns out that a lot of times you go to the hospital, let’s say you get your appendix taken out. then you go home and there’s a complication, and you have to go back to the hospital. that’s inconvenient for you and expensive for the system as a whole. and there’s a few things you can do to help reduce people being readmitted. first, make sure the procedure go well. and secondly, make sure there’s good follow-up. so it might that be a hospital or a health care system pays for, when you do get home, you just getting some phone calls to remind you to take the medicine that you got to take to make sure you heal properly — because they may have done a study and it turns out that people forget to do what they're supposed to do, they don’t follow exactly their doctor's instructions, and they can't afford to have a nurse in their house who's doing it for them. well, maybe there are just a few things that can be done to help make sure that they do what they are supposed to do, and that way they don’t have complications. what we've seen is a significant reduction in hospital readmissions over the course of this law just by doing some smart incentivizing, just saying to the hospitals, “we'll reimburse you,” or, “we'll give you some other benefit for doing smart follow-up.” that's an area where i think we've made some real progress. the other place, and this is connected, where i think we've got some good bipartisan support is just encouraging what's called what’s called — shifting from fee-for-service payments, where you get paid by the procedure. which means that you may end up getting five tests instead of one test emailed to five providers who are treating you. and we’ve started to see some real movement when we say to the system as a whole, “we’re going to pay you for outcomes.” did the patient do well? and that has been helpful. in terms of areas where we haven’t seen as much improvement as i’d like, one thing that comes to mind is on the electronic medical records. if you think about how wired and plugged in everyone is right now — you can basically do everything off your phone — the fact that there are still mountains of paperwork and you don’t understand what these bills are that get sent to your house. and the doctors still have to input stuff and the nurses are spending all their time on the administrative work. we put a big slug of money to encouraging everyone to digitalize and catch up with the rest of the world here. and it’s proven to be harder than we expected, partly because everyone has different systems, they don’t all talk to each other, it requires retraining people in how to use them effectively, and i’m optimistic that over time it’s inevitable it’s going to get better because every other part of our lives, it’s become paperless. but it’s a lot slower than i would have expected; some of it has to do with the fact that it’s decentralized and everyone has different systems. in some cases, you have economic incentives against making the system better; you have service providers — people make money on keeping people’s medical records — so making it easier for everyone to access medical records means that there’s some folks who could lose business. and that’s turned out to be more complicated than i expected.
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  one thing we haven’t touched on yet are the delivery system reforms, which are a big part of the law. what’s an experiment or change that has overperformed your expectation, and what hasn’t panned out as you’d hoped?
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  one that’s worked better than we’d expected — or at least as well as we’d expected —was the issue of hospital readmissions. now, it turns out that a lot of times you go to the hospital, let’s say you get your appendix taken out. then you go home and there’s a complication, and you have to go back to the hospital. that’s inconvenient for you and expensive for the system as a whole. and there’s a few things you can do to help reduce people being readmitted. first, make sure the procedure go well. and secondly, make sure there’s good follow-up. so it might that be a hospital or a health care system pays for, when you do get home, you just getting some phone calls to remind you to take the medicine that you got to take to make sure you heal properly — because they may have done a study and it turns out that people forget to do what they're supposed to do, they don’t follow exactly their doctor's instructions, and they can't afford to have a nurse in their house who's doing it for them. well, maybe there are just a few things that can be done to help make sure that they do what they are supposed to do, and that way they don’t have complications. what we've seen is a significant reduction in hospital readmissions over the course of this law just by doing some smart incentivizing, just saying to the hospitals, “we'll reimburse you,” or, “we'll give you some other benefit for doing smart follow-up.” that's an area where i think we've made some real progress. the other place, and this is connected, where i think we've got some good bipartisan support is just encouraging what's called what’s called — shifting from fee-for-service payments, where you get paid by the procedure. which means that you may end up getting five tests instead of one test emailed to five providers who are treating you. and we’ve started to see some real movement when we say to the system as a whole, “we’re going to pay you for outcomes.” did the patient do well? and that has been helpful. in terms of areas where we haven’t seen as much improvement as i’d like, one thing that comes to mind is on the electronic medical records. if you think about how wired and plugged in everyone is right now — you can basically do everything off your phone — the fact that there are still mountains of paperwork and you don’t understand what these bills are that get sent to your house. and the doctors still have to input stuff and the nurses are spending all their time on the administrative work. we put a big slug of money to encouraging everyone to digitalize and catch up with the rest of the world here. and it’s proven to be harder than we expected, partly because everyone has different systems, they don’t all talk to each other, it requires retraining people in how to use them effectively, and i’m optimistic that over time it’s inevitable it’s going to get better because every other part of our lives, it’s become paperless. but it’s a lot slower than i would have expected; some of it has to do with the fact that it’s decentralized and everyone has different systems. in some cases, you have economic incentives against making the system better; you have service providers — people make money on keeping people’s medical records — so making it easier for everyone to access medical records means that there’s some folks who could lose business. and that’s turned out to be more complicated than i expected.