Tacking Upwind: Reducing Spending Among High-risk Commercially Insured Patients
Although commercial accountable care organization populations are healthy on average, some individuals might benefit from programs for high-risk patients to mitigate high levels of health care utilization.
Population Turnover and Leakage in Commercial ACOs
Payment models that align financial incentives of payers, providers, and patients can mitigate spending growth in thoughtful ways, but the details of the models matter.
Intensive Care Management of a Complex Medicaid Population: A Randomized Evaluation
The authors present findings of a randomized evaluation of Medicaid patients at an academic medical center, which found that intensive care management was associated with reduced total medical expense.
The Essential Role of Population Health During and Beyond COVID-19
The authors detail how population health management enables health systems to promote public health, strengthen health system resiliency, and support financial recovery during and beyond coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).