Healthcare Innovation July 5, 2023
Mark Hagland

A team of healthcare policy researchers argues that it’s time to totally rework outcomes measurement with a nationwide whole health population based payment approach

Healthcare policy leaders nationwide agree on one very broad principle: that the U.S. healthcare system needs to be guided, including via payment incentives, towards improving the overall health of the total U.S. population. Beyond that broad principle, there are countless perspectives and prescriptions out in the healthcare system right now, all of them contending for attention and approval.

Now, a team of healthcare policy researchers believes they have the right idea. In the article “Pay For What Matters To Patients: A Whole Health Population-Based Payment Approach,” published online in the “Forefront” section of Health Affairs on...

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