Which strategy enhances patient outcomes while controlling costs in care management?

• A. Increase hospital beds
• B. Implement evidence-based practices, care coordination, and risk stratification to target high-need patients.
• C. Reducing staff training
• D. Increase prices

Answer: (B)

The approach that best improves outcomes while controlling costs is a proactive, value-based care strategy that uses evidence-based practices, care coordination, and risk stratification to focus resources on high-need patients. Implementing treatments and protocols that have proven benefits standardizes care and reduces unnecessary variation. Coordinating care across providers, settings, and transitions prevents gaps, duplications, and costly readmissions. Risk stratification helps identify patients who are most likely to experience complications or require expensive services, so targeted support—such as care management, home visits, and tailored intervention plans—can prevent problems before they escalate. Altogether, this combination improves quality and outcomes while using resources more efficiently. In contrast, simply increasing hospital beds or prices, or cutting staff training, tends to raise costs or degrade care without delivering the same outcome gains.