Discuss how healthcare providers and patients can benefit when cost is correlated with quality of the healthcare services provided. Post an original discussion of a few paragraphs and support your statements with research.

Wk2 D2: Health Insurance, Managed Care and Reimbursement Methodologies

Cost accounting is one of the most challenging areas in accounting to understand. “A cost accounting system is a system for recording, analyzing and allocating cost to the individual services provided to patients (e.g., medications, procedures, tests, room and board) (Becker’s Hospital Review, 2014). The healthcare industry has been working toward the goal of correlating cost with quality.

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Porter, M. E., & Lee, T. H. (2016). From volume to value in health care: the work begins. Jama, 316(10), 1047-1048.

Discuss how healthcare providers and patients can benefit when cost is correlated with quality of the healthcare services provided.
Post an original discussion of a few paragraphs and support your statements with research.