How Cleveland Clinic used TDABC to improve value

Healthc Financ Manage. 2014 Jun;68(6):84-8.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / economics*
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Cost Allocation / methods*
  • Financial Management, Hospital / methods*
  • Heart Valves / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Ohio
  • Organizational Case Studies
  • Pilot Projects
  • Task Performance and Analysis
  • Time Factors
  • Value-Based Purchasing*