Experts convened in Cleveland, Ohio, on November 11, 2025, to discuss the evolution of cardio-renal-metabolic care from treatment of individual diseases to team-based, population-focused care.
December 2025
Value-based care adoption in employer insurance requires replacing fragmented point solutions with unified, at-risk performance contracts that align vendors, providers, and members around total cost and quality goals.
Self-insured employers face regulatory challenges when adopting value-based contracts, requiring careful data governance, standardized metrics, and legal frameworks to align with federal value-based care models.
Employers struggle to define value from health care spending amid complexity and misaligned incentives. Achieving measurable outcomes requires transparency, incentive realignment, and gradual, employee-centered change.
Experts at a roundtable in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 3, 2025, discussed improving early Alzheimer disease diagnosis, addressing workforce and equity gaps, and expanding access to new disease-modifying therapies.
Academic and clinical experts convened in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 30, 2025, to discuss the potential of coordinated care and prevention to manage cardio-renal-metabolic (CRM) disease.
In 2025, each issue of Population Health, Equity & Outcomes has featured a profile of a health system leader transforming care in their area of expertise. This issue spotlights a conversation with B. Joy Snider, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at Washington University in St Louis.
Many US patients with diabetes cannot afford their medical care. The authors review the impact of interventions that reduced and/or eliminated diabetes-related costs.
Clinicians and health system leaders met in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 23, 2025, to share improvements to value-based care in diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
The RAISE program provides awareness and shares comprehensive solutions to address the multifaceted reasons for missing and incomplete data across the real-world data continuum.
In analyzing 2025 Transparency in Coverage (TIC) files from national insurers, the authors found vast payer-level differences; overall, physician/outpatient data were more complete, and hospital inpatient data were less complete.
Clinicians and health system leaders met in Portland, Oregon, on October 21, 2025, to discuss the evolving options for treating Alzheimer disease and multiple sclerosis.
A small expert panel was selected to share professional experiences with risk-sharing agreements and advance the cost-effective utilization of continuous glucose monitoring–centered care in type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists offer promise in weight and cardiovascular risk reduction, but their use must complement—not replace—lifestyle interventions within a holistic, patient-centered care model.
Experts at an Institute for Value-Based Medicine event held October 14, 2025, in Aurora, Colorado, explored advances in neurology care, cross-specialty collaboration, and strategies to improve access and therapy.
Experts met in Park City, Utah, on October 7, 2025, to discuss how new technologies can help address chronic kidney disease.
Speakers at the Institute for Value-Based Medicine event held September 18, 2025, in Nyack, New York, spoke about methods of managing cardio-renal-metabolic disease.
Payer and health system leaders convened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 9, 2025, to discuss the interconnected health conditions of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome.
Arthritis care remains fragmented and costly, with access disparities prompting calls for preventive strategies, community resources, and systemic improvements.
