The healthcare system in the United States is ailing and in need of a massive value-based transformation. While we are increasingly polarized in our politics, there is one issue on …
One of the most widely known and influential thinkers on management, Peter Drucker, once said, “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” …
Physicians are looking for novel solutions to streamline and improve care delivery in our ever-changing industry. They already don’t have enough time to do all that they want, and they …
How can primary care physicians retain their independence in planning for future success in value-based care? A medical practice must have access to capital to optimize physician workflow and improve …
When you hear about value-based care, do you get tired of hearing about concepts without tangible best practices? Do you ever wish you could just acquire insights from a leader …
Fee-for-service healthcare has destroyed the physician-patient relationship by de-personalizing care delivery. Patient encounters are looked at as transactions, instead of as opportunities to forge long-term healing relationships. Consequently, the healthcare …
Many roads will bring us to health value, but some roads will get us there faster than others. As we reimagine our nation’s healthcare system, we must build alternative avenues …
One of the silver linings of the pandemic has, in fact, been, the expansion of telehealth services and virtual care delivery. The pandemic has also accelerated the healthcare industry’s transition …
For anyone following healthcare transformation in our country, you have undoubtedly heard about ChenMed – a family-owned, primary-care physician run organization that serves a challenging patient population under a full-risk …
The need to strengthen and empower primary care, like the drive towards health equity, is one of the great causes célèbre of American healthcare. As David Blumenthal and Lovisa Gustafsson …
Primary Care in the United States is flawed, especially for our most complex patients in the Medicare program. We have built this incredibly expensive primary care model around a fee-for-service …
Democratization of value can only happen through the replication of full-risk APM adoption in primary care. As a country, we must accelerate primary care progression towards fully-capitated risk by thoughtful …
Community-based health transformation can be unleashed by uniting traditional allopathic medicine with lifestyle medicine. To achieve a vision for population health, we will never change things by fighting the existing …
It’s no secret that the Black community tops the list of groups afflicted by hypertension, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, and cancer. What the statistics do not show is …
ChenMed is a family-owned, physician-run organization that was created to better serve low-moderate income elderly patients. Starting in 1985, Dr. James Chen created ChenMed as a one-stop shop where physicians …
Joining us on the podcast this week is Dr. Clive Fields, the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer for VillageMD. Dr. Fields is a leader of high influence in the value …
In a career focused on improving global health value through systems transformation, relationship-based primary care has been at the heart of Dr. Paul Grundy’s crusade. Dr. Grundy is a data …
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” The same can be said of healthcare organizations serving patients within their local communities. In …
In recent years, the role of retail in health care has grown beyond the co-location of clinics and pharmacies, with many large retailers now expanding their care delivery practices to …
Oak Street Health has an amazing vision to rebuild Health Care as It Should Be: Personal, Equitable, and Accountable. The business was launched with a belief in value-based care …
Employers are on the frontlines in the battle against rising healthcare costs. Legendary investor Warren Buffett said that rising health care costs, not the tax system, are the number one …
It’s not a secret, the broken healthcare system is exquisitely tuned to react after patients get sick. For the most part, profits are made after we FAIL patients. And it hurts all of the caregivers who …
When Thomas Edison created the electric light bulb, he didn’t stop with that one incredible invention. He took the next step and created the industry that would maximize the benefit …
ChenMed was created with a mission to provide care in such a way that it could alleviate suffering for those seniors in the poorest of communities, recognizing that full-risk primary …
The concept of “accountable care in the safety net” was introduced in a Dartmouth Study published by the Commonwealth Fund back in 2013. In that study, there were 4 critical …
Today’s episode follows Austin Regional Clinic (ARC), a large multi-specialty medical group that serves over 500,000 patients in Austin, Texas. Founded in 1980 as an HMO, ARC is coming full-circle …
Primary care is especially compromised in the ongoing pandemic crisis. PCPs are uniquely vulnerable to the deleterious economic effects of COVID-19, since most of their revenue still comes from in-person visits which have plummeted since March amid widespread stay-at-home orders and fears about in-office virus transmission. The pain …
Physician groups are becoming the dominant type of new entrant into the ACO space and have been most successful in achieving savings to date. Many in our industry think that …
