The COVID-19 pandemic upended the U.S. health care system, putting enormous strain on providers and hospitals, and discouraged patients from in-person visits. By forcing us to find innovative ways to ...

This post kicks off the Health Affairs Blog short series, “Value Assessment: Where Do We Go Post-COVID?” The series explores what we have learned about value assessment and related issues during the ...

Benefits brokers have an important role to play, since they are trusted advisors who can point their clients to solutions that promote high-value health care as they work to solve the problems of ...

Over the past several years, there has been an increasing focus on improving the "value" of care delivered by the healthcare system. Among the strongest advocates for “value” have been my mentor ...

Value-based healthcare initiatives are still in early adoption stages worldwide, according to a comprehensive scoping review published in JAMA Health Forum. The study examined how value-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 ...

Despite spending close to twice as much per person on healthcare, the U.S. achieves worse health outcomes. With U.S. healthcare costs now accounting for close to 20% of the country’s GDP, is the way ...

Given the constraints prevalent post-COVID-19, Dr Mark Fendrick, director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, stresses that it is now more important than ever for ...

The authors advocate for a strategy that reallocates the substantial workforce effort and financial resources currently devoted to low-value care to enhance access and affordability of high-value ...

Is it all about service, or quality or cost? Patients, employers and physicians have conflicting notions of what constitutes value, and that could have costly consequences for the $3.3 trillion ...

As part of an effort to turbocharge its omnichannel platforms and digital transformation offering, Precision Value & Health is acquiring engagement consultancy Across Health, PV&H announced Wednesday.