How Cleveland Clinic used TDABC to improve value.

Cleveland Clinic partnered with Harvard Business School to conduct a pilot project to explore the differences between time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) and relative value unit costing. The goal was to determine whether TDABC could improve the accuracy of cost information and identify value-improvement opportunities for two types of heart-value procedures. Using TDABC, leaders gained a detailed look into process steps that could be consolidated, reduced, or performed with a lower cost mix of personnel.

Surviving in the age of price transparency.

*Healthcare organizations can develop a value-based pricing strategy that benefits both patients and the organization. *The value-based pricing strategy of the Cleveland Clinic is based on five key components of value-relationship to cost, payment considerations, quality, market tolerance, and consistency. *Seven interrelated work streams can be used to align pricing inputs around the five components of value-based pricing.