The Potential of a Population Health Strategy to Improve Healthcare Outcomes and Reduce Costs for Medicaid Programs

AJMC March 30, 2018
David J. Dzielak, PhD

The rising cost of healthcare in the United States is a concern not only for individuals and families but also for corporations and both state and federal governments.
This is particularly true of Medicaid programs across the country. The ever-escalating costs of medical goods and services are driving up the cost of Medicaid
programs and making it difficult for state governments to fund their portion of the program.¹ State legislatures are increasingly faced with making difficult choices of funding
the Medicaid program at the expense of other, equally important priorities.

Partly driven by healthcare funding pressure, as well as the Affordable Care Act, the concept of the “triple aim” was proposed by Berwick and colleagues in 2008.² The triple
aim...

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