EmpiRx Health saw a significant increase in pharmacy claims for behavioral health therapies but found managing these treatments in a value-based approach can mitigate the costs. The pharmacy benefit ...

Value-based pricing aligns prescription drug prices to their clinical benefits, leading to lower spending and better health outcomes. In the United States, pharmaceutical companies are able to set the ...

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the ...

Change Healthcare released a white paper titled “Value-Based Reimbursement: State-by-State,” which summarizes the landscape of value-based care in each state and what to expect for the future. Here, ...

Effectively designing and implementing value-based payment reform for specialty care is challenging. The authors describe a commercial payer’s strategic approach to specialty value transformation. You ...

In the healthcare world, everyone wants to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. But this is much easier said than done, pointed out Dr. Patrick Runnels, chief medical officer at Cleveland-based ...

This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog short series, “Higher Health Care Value Post COVID-19.” The series examines opportunities to create a research and policy agenda using the changes wrought by ...

Value-based care (VBC), driven by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has emerged as a cornerstone for redefining the customer journey—creating a profound shift in the insurance ...

You’ve heard about value-based healthcare, but what about value-based IT? Your email has been sent At a high level, value-based healthcare is a relatively simple concept: It’s a payment model where ...

Preventing or delaying the onset of end-stage kidney disease is vital. By implementing a results-driven, value-based approach, Dallas Nephrology Associates has demonstrated improved patient outcomes ...