Addressing Affordability – Costs of Care’s Clear Focus

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....

Jordan Harmon, MHA and Reshma Gupta, MD – Addressing Patient Affordability

September Wallingford, RN, MSN,

For the past decade, policy changes have been put in place around improving value-based healthcare, but few have embarked on trying to improve affordability for patients. Listen as Jordan Harmon, MHA and Reshma Gupta, MD talk about their innovative Affordability Framework in NEJM Catalyst.

Reshma Gupta

Reshma Gupta discusses “Piloting an Interactive Price Transparency Tool” at University of Utah with Professor of Radiology and Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer Dr Yoshimi Anzai.

Jordan Harmon

Costs of Care’s Jordan Harmon talks to Value Challenge Winner Dr. Chris Petrilli about the high-value care program at NYU Langone in New York City.

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