Costs of Care seeks to improve patient affordability. This will require many systemic changes. We all have a role to play. Our team has started the conversation by developing “key components for health care systems to address patient affordability”.
Listen as Carl S. Armato, President and CEO of Novant Health in North Carolina, and winner of the 2020 Steven Schroeder Award, shares his health system's innovations for addressing both the quality and affordability of healthcare.
MoreSubmissions now open for the Costs of Care Affordability Award and the Student Value Challenge.
Our Leadership Summit provides training for first-year medical students to lead value improvement initiatives at their own medical schools – addressing the need to incorporate high-value care and health systems science into medical training.
Hannah Bassett, MD is a pediatric hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, CA. She attended University of New Mexico for medical school and completed her pediatric...
Read MoreCosts of Care believes that every person should be able to receive needed healthcare without payment concerns. Crises such as COVID-19 highlight the extreme vulnerabilities in our healthcare system, including how risky high out-of-pocket costs can be for patients on a routine basis.
In the U.S., patients often appropriately worry about receiving bills for unexpectedly large amounts following routine healthcare services.
As Dr. Aaron Carroll explains in New York Times, cost-sharing is not only potentially dangerous in this current situation with coronavirus, but it also exposes the underlying problems with this mechanism for everyday Americans making everyday medical decisions with their physicians and healthcare providers.
Americans should be able to trust that when we need it the most, our healthcare will be accessible and affordable. Nobody should be forced to choose between their life and their life-savings.
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