Decades of poor outcomes in terms of cost, quality, and access have not created societal commitment to confronting the issue of low-value care in hospitals. Despite medical errors serving as the #3 cause of ...

Chronic kidney disease kills more people than breast or prostate cancer each year – it’s the 9th leading cause of death but you won’t see NFL players wearing socks and gloves ...

Last year, research at Johns Hopkins showed that healthcare consumes nearly half of all federal spending, which includes funding for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, military health benefits, health benefits for federal employees and their dependen...

Stephen Nuckolls grew up listening to his physician father talk about how healthcare could save money for Medicare if it was accountable for outcomes. It was with this intent that ...

In this episode, reflect on the importance of Black History Month, an important time to recognize and honor the contributions and achievements of the millions of African Americans who have ...

Our health care industry excels at rescue care – when a patient needs to be saved, our system has answers. However, we are not well suited to address the challenges ...

An industry inflection point is coming in the transition to value: federal and state governments are feeling an insurmountable level of pressure as public debt and spending increase, large employers ...

The health care industry is experiencing a digital transformation that has been decades in the making. In this era of COVID-19 disruption and heightened consumer expectations for care delivery, the ...

ACOs are increasingly moving into two-sided risk options with MSSP BASIC E and ENHANCED. The Direct Contracting model (with both Professional and Global options) introduces new opportunities and flexibilities that are not included in other CMMI models ...

The American Dream is the hallowed ideology that any individual can advance his or her state of being through ambition and hard work. It defines the American psyche. Historian James Truslow Adams wrote, ...