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By Julie Potyraj The U.S. spends over 50 percent more on health care than most other developed countries spend. From 2000 to 2013, the United States spent the most per capita

By Jeff Kullgren, MD, MPH  More than one third of Americans with private health insurance face high out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures for their health care because they are enrolled in high-deductible health

  Costs of Care Announcement With a focus on improving care and lowering costs, the new Dell Medical School at UT Austin has tapped Chris Moriates, MD, to become Assistant

By Vineet Arora, Chris Moriates, and September Wallingford  Oftentimes that can be how hospitalists feel as they “battle” to provide high-value care (better care at lower cost) for their patients.

By Travis Doering Rrrrrrrp. Tall and short, thick and thin, black, white, and every shade in between, rolls of tape hold a hospital together. For everything that moves but shouldn’t,

By Mukul Mehra, MD Clinicians must promote value-based care, but there is an assumption that one has defined cost and quality.  The two can be discordant, in that low-cost and high-quality