Rating system, process and algorithmic based medium for treatment of medical conditions in cost effective fashion utilizing best treatment protocols and financial assessment tools for determining a maximum cutoff point for assessing healthcare return on investment and to provide for improved clinical/functional outcomes

A system for incentivizing service providers to participate in a best practices and outcome determinant model for providing healthcare, comprising:

• a processor device incorporating a best practices model in the form of a database interfacing with the device and which presents series of treatment options ranging from desirable to undesirable associated with each of a number of relevant healthcare services;
• a decision support system interfacing with the best practices database and processor device, the support system providing any of a grading or awarding system for scoring, in real time, performance metrics for each of any number of providers of the service;
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• a plurality of subset processor devices assigned to each of the service providers, each of the subset devices recording each selected treatment option provided to a patient, said subset devices interfacing with said processor device and receiving, in real time, continuously updated scoring of their performance metrics based upon the grading/awarding system, this including tying desirable performance metrics to financial incentives which are scaled to each treatment option.

A method for incentivizing service providers to participate in a best practices and outcome determinant model for providing healthcare, comprising the steps of:

• creating a best practices model in the form of a database interfacing with a processor device incorporating a software based algorithmic medium, the model presenting a series of treatment options ranging from desirable to undesirable associated with a given type of service;
• establishing a decision support system interfacing with the best practices database and processor device, the support system providing any of a grading or awarding system for scoring, in real time, performance metrics for each of any number of providers of the service;
• outputting to a plurality of subset devices associated with each of a plurality of service providers real time and continuously updated scoring of performance metrics based upon the grading/awarding system and as a result of the treatment options selected and inputted by the providers;
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• incentivizing adherence by the providers to the best practices model by tying desirable performance metrics to financial incentives which are scaled to each treatment option.