Health Care Cost

Accountable primary care is essential in lowering healthcare costs as a whole and making it care more accessible to patients. Debbie Zimmerman, MD, chief medical officer of Lumeris, discussed how to improve primary care and get primary care physicians aligned with the delivery of accountable care.

For the second year, Anthony D. Slonim, MD, DrPH, is in the running for Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders. Recently, he discussed what it means to be a physician leader, the industry’s move to population health, and more.

As Americans as asked to pay a greater portion of their healthcare expenditures, new insurance design models are being implemented, such as value-based insurance design, to combat issues like nonadherence.

Robert W. Dubois, MD, PhD, of National Pharmaceutical Council, will discuss care pathways, how they are created, their implementation in US healthcare, and more, on January 28, 1-2 pm ET, during a tweetchat.

The digital health panel at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference analyzed how the industry can move from collecting data to turning it into actionable and useful information.

Placing greater focus on patient experience can build trust between consumers and healthcare organizations, which important for the effectiveness of the healthcare system, said Ashish K. Jha, MD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

An infographic that looks at 3 factors impacting diabetes care, based on the keynote speech from Patient-Centered Diabetes Care 2015 from Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, of Joslin Diabetes Center.

Bundled payments may be part of the future in healthcare’s move to value-based care, but this payment scheme runs into the challenge of penalizing providers for factors that are beyond their control, explained Joshua T. Cohen, PhD, research associate professor of medicine at Tufts Medical Center.

During the last month of 2015, The American Journal of Managed Care asked readers to choose what they thought was the top healthcare story from the year. Options included overall themes from the year and specific events.

The most read articles from The American Journal of Accountable Care explore the future of healthcare delivery as the United States moves to value-based care.

A new study published by the American Cancer Society found that younger colorectal cancer survivors end up spending over $8500 annually in medical expenses and they also experience significantly greater loss of productivity compared with individuals without cancer.

The rising cost of drugs was in the spotlight in 2015, and the manuscripts in The American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits highlights the growing concerns of the healthcare industry in regards to rising expenditures.

As the healthcare system moves to an environment of value-based payment, bundled payments could become the next step in healthcare transformation. However, there are both opportunities and risks in this form of value-based payment, explained Michael Ciarametaro, MBA, director of research at the National Pharmaceutical Council, at the ISPOR 20th Annual International Meeting.