Payment Reform
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 6, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In this Perspective, the authors aim to facilitate the growth of learning health environments by highlighting strategies and examples of operational and research collaborations within delivery system settings in the United States. Informed by empirical data,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 27, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has dramatically changed the health care landscape, creating new opportunities to advance health promotion, prevention, and treatment for children, parents, and families (IOM and NRC, 2015). However, the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 1, 2016 | Commentary, Perspectives
Now in its third year of data disclosure, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act has helped demystify financial connections between two critically linked health sector stakeholders: health care providers and pharmaceutical companies. This week, the 2015 figures...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 21, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Accountable Care Organizations The fragmented nature of the delivery and financing of health care in the United States, coupled with misdirected incentives dominating the payment structure, has driven national expenditures to be the highest in the world for...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 31, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background Patients of low socioeconomic status (SES) are at higher risk than patients of greater means for hospitalization for conditions that can be addressed in the ambulatory setting (Kangovi et al., 2013; 2014). Patients of low SES are twice as likely as...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 8, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background In the United States, the notion of a continuously learning health care system is gaining traction as a way to advance the objectives of high-quality, patient-centered care at reasonable cost. One activity of a learning health care system is the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 17, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction “Will I do better if my care is delivered by a team? Will my chance of having a better outcome improve? This is what I value. This is the bottom line.” Jessie Gruman (1953-2014), founder and president of Center for Advancing Health and workgroup...
by Laura DeStefano | Aug 15, 2014 | Commentary, Perspectives
Employers have a major impact on the U.S. health care system through their sponsorship of health benefits for more than 150 million Americans. In response to the changes occurring in the context of the Affordable Care Act, firms are reassessing and changing...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The key to the long term survival of the health care reforms being implemented under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has little to do with the enrollment websites that have attracted so much attention and everything to do with transforming the performance of the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and co-occurring state health reform initiatives are fueling a new wave of deliberation and experimentation with population health strategies (IOM, 2013a). Although lacking a precise definition, these strategies aim to improve...
