Companies Expanding Their Services Through Ventures with ACOs

At CAQH Connect 2024, health care leaders discussed advancing value-based care through collaboration, data standardization, patient-centered approaches, and adaptable partnerships.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health care costs continue to rise despite lower demand, while younger generations increasingly face chronic health challenges.

Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.

The policy community should consider these concrete suggestions to address the challenges presented by social determinants of health.

As health care moves toward a value-based payment model, the pharmacy benefit is going in the opposite direction, one that places unit cost over clinical appropriateness.