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De-implementation of Low Value Care: A Tool to Create Clinician Energy for Targeted Interventions

Delivery System Science Fellow and AcademyHealth member Audrey Johnson offers a perspective on the impact of constant changes in the health care system, best practices for de-implementation, and harnessing clinician’s knowledge to target evidence-based interventions.

Posted Jul 9, 2020 By Audrey Johnson, P.T., D.P.T.

Topics Delivering Better Care Costs & Payments Hospitals & Health Systems

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Part IV: De-implementing Low-Value Care Services: Implications and Challenges at the Organizational Level

In this final post in a four-part blog series, authors from AcademyHealth’s Research Community on Low-Value Care explore issues that health systems must confront in the de-implementation process.

Posted Jun 29, 2020 By Moriah Ellen, M.B.A., Ph.D., Christian D. Helfrich, M.P.H., Ph.D

Topics Delivering Better Care Costs & Payments Hospitals & Health Systems

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Part III: De-implementing Low-Value Care Services: Considerations for Providers

The third in a four-part blog series, authors from AcademyHealth’s Research Community on Low-Value Care explore considerations for providers as they address the issue of de-implementation in care delivery.

Posted Jun 23, 2020 By Jeffrey Kullgren, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., Benjamin R. Roman, M.D., MSHP

Topics Delivering Better Care Costs & Payments Hospitals & Health Systems

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Part II: De-implementing Low-Value Care Services: Addressing Patient Perspectives

The second in a four-part blog series, authors from AcademyHealth’s Research Community on Low-Value Care explore how the process of de-implementing health care services impacts patients.

Posted Jun 17, 2020 By Erin E. Hahn, Ph.D., M.P.H., Beth Prusaczyk, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Topics Delivering Better Care Costs & Payments Hospitals & Health Systems

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Viewing De-implementation as a Feature of a Learning Health Care System

The first in a four-part blog series, authors from AcademyHealth’s Research Community on Low-Value Care explore the concept of de-implementation as a normal and routine part of the ever-evolving research and care delivery process.

Posted Jun 8, 2020 By Christian D. Helfrich, M.P.H., Ph.D

Topics Delivering Better Care Hospitals & Health Systems Costs & Payments

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Employers in Colorado Band Together to Directly Negotiate Rates and Lower Costs for Health Care Consumers

The Center for Improving Value in Health Care, a member of AcademyHealth’s partner, the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, highlights how Colorado is trying change the way employers purchase, and consumers shop for health care.

Posted Mar 4, 2020 By Cari Frank, M.B.A.

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Costs & Payments

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Three Points to Consider as Adoption of Alternative Payment Models Grows

Cheryl Austein Casnoff and Mary Wheatley of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organization affiliate, explore challenges in value-based payment model adoption in response to AcademyHealth’s recent 2020 National Health Policy Conference.

Posted Feb 28, 2020 By Cheryl Austein Casnoff, Mary Wheatley, M.S.

Topics Paying for Care Costs & Payments

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Report Details Price Variation Across and Within Minnesota Hospitals

Findings from AcademyHealth members' work reveal that a substantial amount of the variation was related to differences within individual hospitals and not explained by factors such as severity of illness, length of stay, or patients’ age.

Posted Feb 27, 2020

Topics Costs & Payments Hospitals & Health Systems Data Sources

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Research Points to Impact of Global Budget Model on Hospital Spending

Findings from AcademyHealth members’ work suggest that hospital global budgets can reduce hospital expenditures and unnecessary utilization without adverse effects.

Posted Feb 27, 2020

Topics Costs & Payments Hospitals & Health Systems

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How Much Is Too Much: Out-Of-Pocket Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Guest authors from AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, discuss findings from a recent survey.

Posted Feb 13, 2020 By Wyatt Koma, Juliette Cubanski, Tricia Neuman, Anthony Damico

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care Costs & Payments