September 2020

Coverage of the Population Health Delivery Council meeting, held virtually by The American Journal of Managed Care® on July 18.

In the past 5 years, a community-based cancer clinic has undergone a large degree of change to achieve its goals of practice transformation and value-based care (VBC).

Amid the current devastation wrought by the global pandemic, a health insurer in California has demonstrated leadership in fighting through systemic deficiencies by empowering people, process, and technology to address coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Qualitative interviews reveal health care leader perspectives on how state governments influenced payment reform by developing an accountable care program for public employees.

Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations spent less on surgical care by reducing inpatient surgery, increasing outpatient surgery, and reducing spending on postacute care after inpatient surgery.

New data give hope that accountable care organizations (ACOs) are now in a position to start managing the high costs of surgery.