Value-Based Payment Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Value-Based Payment News      October, 2017  
       
   2017 Accountable Care Web Summit
 
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  “These types of value-based arrangements [value-based insurance designs] are one spoke in the wheel of controlling costs. Despite the rhetoric in the marketplace about these types of contracts being a silver bullet, our study indicates they have a long way to go.”
- Patrick Gleason PharmD, Senior Director of Health Outcomes, Prime Therapeutics.

 
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  The National Association of ACOs and Leavitt Partners report that the nation’s accountable care organizations are “considering or have firm plans to participate in” future risk-based contracts – 47% say they’re planning for shared savings or shared risk and 38% report planning for capitation – but add that, so far, “care management strategies arelargely unchanged.”

Excerpted from: Value Based Payment News, Volume 2 Issue 20, October Second Edition 2017, "NAACOS, Leavitt See ACOs ‘Slowly’ Accepting Risk."
 
 
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How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare Health Economics and Outcomes Research in the Era of Value-Based Care and the 21st Century Cures Act

A panel discussion focused on how the 21st Cures Act has increased focus on real-world evidence (RWE), from an educational symposium sponsored by Cardinal Health during the 22nd Annual ISPOR International Meeting. Within oncology, regulatory issues limit clinical trial participation to 3% of cancer patients who differ from the real-world population. However, RWE is criticized for inadequacies in validating drug label expansions. New methods to address these challenges are discussed.

 
 
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Joseph Antos: 5 principles of value-based care

1. We have to find a way to move from simple-minded fee-for-service.
2. Providers have to integrate care delivery.
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