This is (thankfully) the direction medical care is going in the US - a shift from "fee for service" to "value based care". It's wrapped up as part of the Affor

This is (thankfully) the direction medical care is going in the US - a shift from "fee for service" to "value based care". It's wrapped up as part of the Affordable Care Act, and basically hospital reimbursements are being moved from "Did you do the treatment? Here's $XX", to being based on metrics like re-admittance, customer complaints, etc. A focus on the population statistics, as opposed to just providing treatment. So large hospitals today are already starting to have these "project managers", though they call it "population health" - and it is gradually becoming more directly tied to the hospital's bottom line.