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Dr Patrick Conway: How VBID Can Benefit Medicare Advantage
Patrick Conway, MD, explains why CMS looked toward value-based insurance design for Medicare Advantage plans.
Patrick Conway, MD, says that CMS is looking towards value-based insurance design for Medicare Advantage plans.
Transcript (modified)
What is it about value-based insurance design that CMS thought would make it a good fit for a Medicare Advantage Demonstration?
So we had seen value-based insurance design in the private market, we’d seen some evidence of its potential to improve quality, to lower cost, and to increase delivery of high-value services. And we’re hearing from Medicare Advantage (MA) Plans that they wanted the ability to have value-based insurance design in the MA program.
So we put forward that model where, in the process of getting applications and selecting those applications, we think incentivizing the consumer, the beneficiary, to seek out high-value services will be beneficial to Medicare Advantage plans and to our health system.
Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
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Commonwealth Fund Report Details Pervasive Racial and Ethnic Disparities in US Health Care, Outcomes
April 18th 2024Using 25 health system performance indicators, the Commonwealth Fund 2024 State Health Disparities Report evaluated racial and ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes both within and across US states and highlighted the urgent need for equitable health care policies and practices in the US.
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Overcoming Employment Barriers for Lasting Social Impact: Freedom House 2.0 and Pathways to Work
April 16th 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our second episode, in which we learn all about Freedom House 2.0 and the Pathways to Work program.
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The Biden administration recently launched the Global Health Security Strategy, a new effort to combat the spread of infectious diseases; lawmakers zeroed in on the risks of massive consolidation in health care during the first congressional hearing on the Change Healthcare hack; the FDA recently announced the recall of a pair of heart devices linked to numerous deaths and injuries.
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