Interest in population health isn’t translating into action
BenefitsPRO August 21, 2020
The U.S. has made little progress toward meaningful implementation of population health.
Health care providers in the United States made little progress in 2019 toward greater population health even as health care costs continue to rise, a trend which may reverse in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the authors of a new study.
The 2020 Numeroff & Associates State of Population Health report, which surveyed around 500 C-suite health care executives between June and September 2019, found that the U.S. has made little progress toward meaningful implementation of population health.
More specifically, the study’s authors link population health to the adoption of risk-based health care contracts, that is, linking reimbursement to management of cost and...