Understanding the factors that increase or reduce costs and the ways that payments affect the choices people make can help improve health and health care decision making.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Findings from AcademyHealth members’ work suggest that hospital global budgets can reduce hospital expenditures and unnecessary utilization without adverse effects.
As part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded project Research Insights, managed by AcademyHealth, this webinar identified the effects of a range of federal and state levers intended to strengthen the individual health insurance market’s infrastructure.
Date & Time December 17, 2019 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
Location Online
AcademyHealth staff reflect on the continuing need to advance research on low value care, following a Health Affairs blog post urging a focus on vulnerable populations in broader efforts to reduce low-value care.
AcademyHealth member Naiya Patel highlights how formative training around alternative tobacco products could help dental health professionals deliver better care.