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  "It makes sense for healthcare systems to partner with CBOs [Community-Based Organizations]. Stable housing and a supply of nutritious food can provide the foundation that allows the client to then work on health issues such as diabetes.”
- Robert Hettenbach, Executive Director, Nassau-Queens Performing Provider System.
  
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  Reviewing the results of the Advisory Board Research Annual Health Care CEO Survey, cost control has eclipsed revenue growth as the most urgent strategic priority. In the 2017 survey, consumer-driven growth topics topped the list; this year, top-line growth has been clearly overtaken by a renewed focus on the bottom line. 70% of CEOs gave preparing for sustainable cost control an A, while the survey’s top performer in previous years scored between 50% and 55%.

Excerpted from: VBP News, Volume 3 Issue 14, July Second Edition 2018, "Firm Finds Healthcare Companies Focusing on Issues Around Value."
 		  
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How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare CAQH CORE: The Role of Interoperability in Value-based Payment, ONC Perspective

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Joanne Finnegan: 4 changes physician groups don’t like in proposed MACRA, physician fee schedule rule

1. It could slow the move to value-based payment. (AMGA)
2. It could raise, not lower, drug prices. (Community Oncology Alliance and American Society of Clinical Oncology)
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Source: FierceHealthcare, July 17, 2018
     
 
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