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  Complimentary from the publishers of Value-Based Payment News      December, 2017  
       
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  "It can be difficult to convince outside contractors to follow VA directives and other evidence-based and outcomes-driven guidelines developed in the VA if the contract represents only part of the contractors’ business and requires costly redesign.” The VA and Medicare “face a comparable challenge in ensuring access to an equal level of high quality, affordable care.”
- James F. Burgess Jr. PhD, Senior Investigator in the Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
  
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  “[Medicare] Beneficiaries who received care from providers in value-based agreements were almost 3 times more likely to undergo preventive care visits.”

Excerpted from: Value Based Payment News, Volume 2 Issue 24, December Second Edition 2017, "Washington Watch."
 		  
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How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare Value-Based Reimbursement State-by-State

Lisa Conley, government affairs specialist at Change Healthcare reviews the state of value-based payment programs at all 50 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico. Brooks Daverman, director of healthcare innovation at Tennessee division of TennCare, discusses the development of Tennessee’s Health Care Innovation Initiative, and shares lessons learned
from Tennessee Medicaid's introduction of episodes of care and other value-based payment strategies. Moderated by Andrei Gonzales, AVP of product management for value-based solutions at Change Healthcare.

 
 
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Michael D. Dalzell: 5 emerging value-based care themes for 2018

1. Value-based care can’t be done one slice at a time
2. CNew value-based models will take aim at variations in care.
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Source: Managed Care, December 2017
     
 
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