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Using Telehealth to Fight the Novel Coronavirus

By | March 10, 2020
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COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is spreading across the US and around the world. Can providers use telehealth to help  identify and manage the novel coronavirus while helping organizations manage capacity and prevent the spread of COVID-19?  Read on to find out more. Because of its airborne person-to-person transmission, coronavirus and related… Read More »

Two Approaches to Value in Health Policy Reform

By | September 16, 2019
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VBID and alternative payment models comprise two approaches to reform with different incentives that influence underlying motives. The underlying principle of Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) is to align patient out-of-pocket costs, or cost-sharing (deductibles, co-pays, etc.), with clinical value of services. Decreasing cost-sharing for high-value services and increasing cost-sharing for low-value services is the goal of… Read More »