DECEMBER 1, 2016

Project Sonar Validates Cost Normalization Methodology in IBD Care

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