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Moving From Healthcare to HealthFocusing on quality and quality measurements has the potential to reduce costs, increase quality, and deliver more value to patients, consumers, and customers.
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Racial/Ethnic Variation in Devices Used to Access Patient PortalsThe study examined the variation in devices used (desktop/laptop computer, mobile device, or both device types) by patients of different racial/ethnic backgrounds to access the online patient portal.
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Annual Diabetic Eye Examinations in a Managed Care Medicaid PopulationWe assessed challenges and barriers to annual diabetic eye examinations for a managed care Medicaid population and make recommendations to improve population-level screening.
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Psychological Family Intervention for Poorly Controlled Type 2 DiabetesA family-based intervention targeting negative and/or inaccurate illness perceptions in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes was effective in improving glycemic control.
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Predictors of High-Risk Prescribing Among Elderly Medicare Advantage BeneficiariesThis study examines patterns of high-risk prescribing in the elderly Medicare Advantage population and demonstrates that the practice varies widely by geography and drug class.
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Accountable Care Organizations and Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Health Expenditures and Health ServicesThis study compares health care costs and health services utilization patterns of patients receiving care in accountable care organization (ACO), patient-centered medical home (PCMH), hybrid (ACO + PCMH), and standard (neither ACO/PCMH) facilities.
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Cost-effectiveness of Intensification With SGLT2 Inhibitors for Type 2 DiabetesAdding a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dominated switching to a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist over the lifetimes of patients with type 2 diabetes not at glycated hemoglobin A1c target after treatment with metformin plus a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor.
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Comparing Apples With Oranges: Administrative Expenses and Finances in Medicare SystemsIn the debate of administrative expenses for public and private Medicare, we show incompatibility and extend the analysis to income, benefits, and loss ratio comparisons.
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The Vermedx® Diabetes Information System Reduces Healthcare UtilizationThis analysis of paid claims from a physician hospital organization demonstrates that the Vermedx Diabetes Information System improves healthcare costs for adults with diabetes.
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Toward Tailored Disease Management for Type 2 DiabetesThe heterogeneous nature of care processes and patients should be taken into account in both the design and evaluation of disease management programs for diabetes.
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A Retrospective on the Oncology Care ModelFlatiron Health recently conducted a retrospective review of the Oncology Care Model, discovering what's working, what isn't, and what this could mean for the future.
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Value-Based Arrangements May Be More Prevalent Than AssumedWe surveyed biopharmaceutical manufacturers and payers to understand the prevalence and characteristics of value-based payment arrangements, as well as their implementation obstacles and success factors.
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CKD Quality Improvement Intervention With PCMH Integration: Health Plan ResultsA scalable chronic kidney disease (CKD) quality improvement intervention demonstrated feasibility, decreased hospitalization, and reduced costs. These preliminary results support innovation in CKD by commercial health plans.
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Postdischarge Telephone Calls by Hospitalists as a Transitional Care StrategyTreating hospitalists effectively identify and efficiently address early postdischarge problems through a single, brief telephone encounter.
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Are Value-Based Incentives Driving Behavior Change to Improve Value?Value-based payment is promoting care delivery transformation among California physician organizations, although the initial focus has been on controlling hospital costs and redesigning primary care.
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Negative Co-Payments: The CHORD TrialThis study extends value-based insurance design concepts in testing the impact on blood pressure control of rewards that provided negative co-payments for blood pressure medication.
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Statin Adherence and Mortality in Patients Enrolled in a Secondary Prevention ProgramEnrollment in a secondary disease prevention program can have a significant impact on statin adherence and subsequent clinical outcomes.
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A Model for Delivering Population Health Across the Care ContinuumThe Population Health Care Delivery Model presents delivery systems with a framework for developing, piloting, and implementing population health programs across the continuum of care.
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Systolic Blood Pressure Control After Participation in a Hypertension Intervention StudySystolic blood pressure control was not maintained in a large proportion of patients after the end of participation in a hypertension intervention study.
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Oncology Management Programs for Payers and PhysiciansEvaluating current models and diagnosing successful strategies for payers and physicians.
