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 …
