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Payers and Providers - How to Create a Win/Win With Critical Data

"We need strategies and models that provide better care at a lower price, not just new models for the sake of new models, and not new systems of payment for old systems that aren’t open to real change.”
- Alex M. Azar II, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in "Remarks on Value-Based Healthcare", Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, September 6, 2018.

Six categories account for over 20% of total US healthcare expenditures: overtreatment, failures of care coordination, failures in execution of care processes, administrative complexity, pricing failures, and fraud and abuse.

Excerpted from: VBP News,Volume 3 Issue 18, September Second Edition 2018, "Perspectives: Articles Offer Insight, Advice on 'Myth of Coordinated Care,' Reducing Waste in Provider Practices'."

How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare

Advancing Value-Based Payment in Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports

This webinar, made possible by the West Health Policy Center, explored opportunities for states seeking to adopt value-based payment models for home-and community-based services (HCBS) in managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) programs. It featured experiences of two leading states, New York and Tennessee. The webinar
examined considerations for selecting quality metrics and payment models. It also described common program and policy challenges, and the strategies used to address them

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	The Physicians Foundation: Percentage of total compensation that is tied to "value-based" metrics 1. 0 to 10% of compensation: 41.9% of physicians surveyed 2. 11 to 20% of compensation: 22.4% of physicians surveyed 3. Continue reading here Source: The Physicians Foundation, "2018 SURVEY OF AMERICA’S PHYSICIANS," conducted by Merritt Hawkins, September 2018

Perspectives: Articles Offer Insight, Advice on 'Myth of Coordinated Care,' Reducing Waste in Provider Practices
Washington Watch: HHS Concedes Mandatory Models Coming Back
Industry News with briefs regarding: UChicago Medicine, Humana; VillageMD
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