Healthcare DIVE July 16, 2018
Rebecca Pifer

Dive Brief:

  • The Pacific Business Group on Health and the Health Care Transformation Task Force have released a report and contracting tool to assist providers and payers with the care management of high-need, high-cost patients.
  • PBGH, a non-profit coalition of large healthcare purchasers, and HCTTF, an association of health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient organizations, interviewed 11 organizations that have operated care management programs for these patients for two years or more to form the tool.
  • HNHC patients, a small number of individuals with complex medical, social and behavioral needs, make up 5% of the U.S. population but account for roughly 50% of the country’s annual healthcare spending.
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