Value-Based Care: Beyond Today’s Obstacles to Greater Adoption
Let me start with my view: I hope health plans will significantly expand their value-based care arrangements in the coming year while simultaneously ensuring their models are viable and a win-win for their providers and effective in helping members and their care circles navigate appropriate care.
What Healthcare Thought Leaders Are Saying About AI
In June, at NASCO’s 2024 Conference, I had the wonderful opportunity to partner with Kirk Barnes to organize a panel of healthcare thought leaders to discuss the impacts and implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on our industry.
Value-Based Care: What’s Not Working?
There is a widely held belief among healthcare experts that value-based care can reduce healthcare costs, improve healthcare coordination and quality of care, and help to alleviate physician burnout. Increasing evidence supports this belief.
Does Your Health Plan Meet the Needs of ASO Employers?
Most employers choose to self-fund health benefits for their employees. In 2023, for example, 65 percent of covered workers were in a self-funded or administrative services only (ASO) health plan, up from 52 percent 20 years ago. At large firms, the number climbed to 83 percent last year.
How are Payers Responding to Current Market Trends?
In today’s competitive job market, healthcare remains among the top considerations that influence a person’s decision to join or leave a company. Employers must be able to offer competitive salaries and good healthcare benefits to prospective employees looking for the right opportunity.
Using AI in a Responsible, Value-driven Way
Another article on Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Yes, but instead of assessing the extensive technological possibilities, I would like to broaden the focus to consider business value as well as the positive (and potentially negative) disruption that Generative AI (GenAI) will bring to our work environments.
The Big Challenges (and Bigger Opportunities) of Value-Based Care
Among the countless changes underway in the healthcare space, one market trend is particularly intriguing for its potential to disrupt the entire ecosystem.
Q&A with Linda Leigh Brock
NASCO’s Vice President of Product Management, Linda Leigh Brock, has been with the company for nearly a dozen years and has more than 25 years of experience in information technology across healthcare, telecommunications, and other high-tech industries.