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04/17/2025

The American Hospital Association is pushing to remove barriers to value-based care, especially for small and rural hospitals. They’re calling for extended incentives, clearer models, and inflation-adjusted reimbursements to support broader adoption.

Uncover the top barriers to value-based care adoption and how the American Hospital Association thinks policymakers can address them.

04/15/2025

Are you ready for the future of healthcare? Aging technology and outdated business models may be the norm now, but better ways of giving and receiving healthcare are on the horizon. Promoting interoperability and making it easier to share and merge data is the key to giving patients and providers optimal experiences.

This article is one in a series that advocates the need to bring specialty care under value-based care payment models. Click here to read the previous article, How Insights from Payer Data Improve Patient Care. As much as 30% of data worldwide is generated by the healthcare industry. That percentage...

04/13/2025

The U.S. healthcare system’s complexity drives up administrative costs. Fragmented systems, overlapping regulations, and complex billing processes waste resources. Simplifying and unifying systems could improve efficiency and reduce costs. https://bit.ly/4idJ6sK

04/10/2025

Healthcare CFOs are tackling cost challenges with smarter strategies—value-based care, AI-driven efficiency, better data sharing, and smarter supply chains. It's all about doing more with less.

"Proactive not reactive" cost containment strategies are vital for finance executives.

04/09/2025

We're committed to transforming healthcare through advanced solutions and strategic partnerships. Enlace Health is proud to join the Health Evolution Summit as a sponsor!

04/08/2025

Healthcare payers and systems are feeling the financial strain from rising specialty care costs, which make up 70% of spending. Specialty care’s unpredictable expenses challenge both sides, making data insights essential to manage costs and drive better outcomes.

Healthcare organizations are feeling the squeeze from both sides. Payers, particularly large ones like Anthem and CVS, are struggling with increasing financial challenges as medical loss ratios (MLR) rise, affecting their profitability. Each financial reporting quarter – Q1, Q2, Q3 – has reveale...

04/06/2025

Want better care and lower costs?

A value-based approach that connects the whole system can make a big difference. It’s all about working smarter, not harder.

Mapping care management needs by defining patient populations and then stratifying them according to risk and their needs can help to spur the transformation of a siloed health care system into an integrated system that is able to better provide holistic, value-based care despite the many transition...

04/03/2025

A recent survey of 200 healthcare industry experts, reveals that 82% anticipate a 15% rise in hospital and health system costs over the next six months due to tariff-related import expenses.

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04/02/2025

Enlace Health is proud to be part of the Health Evolution Summit, working toward transforming healthcare with smarter solutions and enhanced collaboration.

04/01/2025

Value-based care isn’t about treating diseases; it’s about treating individuals within their unique contexts. Social determinants of health are the keys to unlocking better outcomes for all.

This article is one in a series that advocates the need to bring specialty care under value-based care payment models. Click here to read the previous article, The Risk/Return Ratio of Value-Based Care is High, But Progress is Slow. Integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) into value-based c...

03/30/2025

How do you explain value-based care to patients without sounding like you’re cutting corners?
Instead of focusing on cost savings or efficiency, talk about what patients actually value:
✔️ Coordinated care
✔️ More time with providers
✔️ Seamless communication
✔️ Being treated as a whole person

‘People absolutely hate the word value; it makes them think of bargain brands,’ says Natalie Davis, CEO of United States of Care

03/27/2025

High cost-sharing can prevent people from getting the care they need. Aligning out-of-pocket costs with the value of care can improve health outcomes and reduce unnecessary spending.

Michael Chernew, PhD, professor of health care policy and director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab, Harvard Medical School, shares how cost-sharing policies shape access to critical health care services and influence value-based insurance design.