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  • 4 - Care Coordination

  • Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania, Flaura Winston, Mary Naylor, Kevin Volpp, Lawton Robert Burns, University of Pennsylvania, Ralph Muller, David Asch, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Rachel Werner, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Bimal Desai, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Krisda Chaiyachati, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Benjamin Chartock, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Seemed Like a Good Idea
    Published online:
    14 July 2022
    Print publication:
    28 July 2022, pp 64-131

  • Summary

    “Fragmentation” – the breakdown in communication among many providers treating a single patient, such that multiple decision makers make a set of health care decisions that would be made better through unified decision-making1 – is frequently cited as a major problem in the US health care system.2 It plagues both the payment system (which has multiple payers) as well as the delivery system (which has siloed providers). This chapter focuses on the latter problem of fragmentation among care providers and calls to correct it via “care coordination.” The problem is not just provider fragmentation, however. It is also the lack of clarity regarding what care coordination (the proposed solution) means, what benefits it confers, and how to do it.