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Modules/Curriculum

WEBDiscovering Value-Based Health Care is a set of free interactive learning modules that teach the concepts of value-based health care and high-value care delivery. The …

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Heroin and the Cost of Care

WEBThe National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) calculates that direct health care costs account for $11 billion of the $193 billion overall cost attributed to drug abuse, …

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Making Health Care More Affordable

WEBLooking at health care I see so many ways we can improve. With the costs rising and deductibles killing the budgets of families in need of medical care, we are …

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How does population health impact health care costs

WEBResearch supports the notion that improving population health can have an impact on health care costs. For example, a recent study of workplace wellness …

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Cost Versus Quality: How U.S. Health Care Stacks Up

WEBBy Julie Potyraj. The U.S. spends over 50 percent more on health care than most other developed countries spend. From 2000 to 2013, the United States spent the …

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The “Top 10” ways to Prevent Healthcare Financial Disaster

WEBBy Gabe Sullivan. Health costs are one of the greatest financial burdens our country faces today and will continue to face in the coming years. Patients, doctors, …

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Anatomy of a Bill

WEBWhat is value-based health care? Value-based care is defined as the outcomes that matter to patients divided by the total costs of care. In association with the "A Bill You Can …

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Improving Pediatric Healthcare Cost & Quality at Your Fingertips

WEBBy Maya Dewan, MD, MPH. In today’s world, a simple online search yields endless information about the quality and cost of restaurants, retail shops, even pets, …

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Frameworks/Surveys

WEBFor patients, the lack of access to affordable care renders high quality and efficiency meaningless and potentially leads to financial toxicity.There are many promising …

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Tallying the High Cost of Preventable Harm

WEBThe average cost per incidence of preventable harm is approximately $58,776 per injury. Increasingly, Medicare and other insurers will not cover the cost of medical …

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Review of “Less Medicine, More Health,” by H. Gilbert Welch

WEBWelch asks the tough questions, collects the evidence, and provides thoughtful, persuasive answers. In his newest book, “ Less Medicine, More Health ”, he …

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Patient Education – An Overlooked Factor in the Cost of Care

WEBThe costs may be measured in outcomes, quality of life, unplanned readmissions to the hospital and other potentially avoidable utilization of healthcare …

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The Cost of Laboratory Testing

WEBHowever, it comes at a price. More than $124 billion was spent on cancer care in 2010 and this cost is estimated to grow to $173 billion in 2020. 1 Drug costs have …

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Anne Smeraglio, MD

WEBAnne Smeraglio, MD. Dr. Smeraglio attended Oregon Health & Science University for medical school then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University …

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The Costs of Breast Cancer in the U.S.

WEBIn 2010, the cost of treating breast cancer was about $16.5 billion in the United States — higher than any other type of cancer. This is expected to increase to …

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Reshma Gupta MD, MSHPM

WEBDr. Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM, Senior Advisor for Costs of Care and a practicing internist who serves as the Medical Director of Value and Population Care at University of …

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The Importance of Cost Awareness

WEBAdherence optimizes cost savings and has huge cascading effects for all stakeholders in the health system. It improves outcomes and keeps people out of the …

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Stigma is Only Part of the Mental Health Price Tag

WEBBuilding Trust in the Healthcare System. Listen as Daniel Wolfson, Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation, discusses the importance of building …

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