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February 15, 2017

Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News – Project Sonar Validates Cost Normalization Methodology

By Jordan Davidson
See full article in Gastroenterology & Endoscopy

The costs of clinical practices vary greatly from one group to another. So what’s the best way to eliminate these differences and determine whether a particular approach to care is more (or less) cost-effective than another? Physicians at the Illinois Gastroenterology Group created a web platform called Project Sonar to monitor patients with Crohn’s disease. They presented a method of normalizing costs and mitigating variability by comparing them with Medicare payments. They presented their project at the 2016 Digestive Disease Week. Read More >>

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