The following is a transcript of a live conversation between Leah Binder, President and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, with Chris Moriates, MD, Executive Director of Costs of Care and
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
Over the past 10 years, Costs of Care has helped lead the value improvement movement through a number of overlapping phases, from raising awareness and advocating for transparency, to addressing appropriateness by supporting clinician-led efforts to reduce waste and low-value care. There is still much work to be done on each of these fronts and as an organization we will continue to be meaningfully engaged in advocacy, awareness, appropriateness, and education. However, while each of these foundational components are necessary, they are insufficient for making the impact we want to see on patients’ financial and physical experience of health care. To truly provide greater value for diverse populations, we must meaningfully address patient affordability.
Jessica Keim-Malpass is a nurse scientist who has a background in implementation of emerging family-centered technologies in the health care setting, health communication, and economic analyses. She is a pediatric
BOSTON (PRWEB) APRIL 24, 2019 Costs of Care, today on its 10th anniversary, names Christopher Moriates as the new Executive Director of the influential healthcare non-profit. Founder and outgoing Executive
By Cassandra Sunga This past spring, I dropped a knife on my foot while cutting my birthday cake and completely lacerated the tendon on top of my big toe. Six