Value-Based Medicine News
Seema Verma Envisions a US Health System That Shares Data, Is Truly Value-Based
May 31st 2019Creating a healthcare system that prioritizes a well-informed consumer and rewards improvements in quality requires overhauling the current system. Through a series of programs and initiatives, CMS, under Administrator Seema Verma’s leadership, is trying to fix some of the issues that plague the current US health system and make accessing care challenging for patients.
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Connecting Cancer Practices to Share Data, Deliver Better Care, Identify Best Practices
May 14th 2019Outcomes for patients with cancer are continuously improving, but the increasingly complex healthcare system, new payment and delivery models that place more risk on practices, and rising costs of therapies has made it difficult for independent oncology practices to thrive and survive. However, independent practices present an important part of cancer care, delivering care to patients who are not near large hospital-based systems at lower costs.
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HHS Announces 5 New Primary Care Payment Models to Encourage Value-Based Care
April 22nd 2019At the American Medical Association headquarters Monday, HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced 5 new Medicare primary care payment models designed to eventually incentivize the entire healthcare system to transition to value-based care, particulary for patients with chronic conditions.
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Reducing Low-Value Care May Mean Tough Conversations With Stakeholders
March 14th 2019The concept of value is a well-known topic among health policy experts, the payer community, and policy makers, but patients do not necessarily have the same idea of what value means. When discussions about removing low-value care from the system to save money come up, patients might get the wrong idea of what is going on and why.
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New Statewide Pilot in Virginia Aims to Reduce Low-Value Care, Decrease Costs and Patient Harm
March 13th 2019The Virginia Center for Health Innovation (VCHI) is receiving a $2.2 million grant from Arnold Ventures to launch a 3-year statewide pilot to reduce the use of low-value care in the state of Virginia.
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Progressing From Identifying and Measuring to Reducing Low-Value Care Services
March 3rd 2019Low-value care that offers no benefit to patients, or can actually cause more harm than good, is costly to patients and the healthcare system. While low-value services are being identified and measured, it has been more difficult to reduce the use of low-value care.
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Revolutionizing US Healthcare With Consumer-Centered Care, Value-Based Insurance Design
February 8th 2019In a webinar presented by the Health Care Transformation Task Force, Hoangmai Pham, MD, MPH, of Anthem, and A. Mark Fendrick, MD, of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, highlighted how to steed the healthcare industry toward a more consumer-centered model based on value-based insurance design.
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