Tag: VBP

The Hidden Costs of COVID-19
As we enter 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic is surging through the United States yet again, this time fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Although the symptoms of this variant ...

Health Policy News – February 2021
In the month since the presidential inauguration, the Biden administration has been busy putting its mark on U.S. health policy. A new Marketplace Open Enrollment Period has begun, and the ...

Migrating Incentives from Measurement to Learning
Over the past three decades, an overreliance on quality measures as a material driving factor in value-based payment (VBP) arrangements has created an adverse trade-off within delivery systems: achieve short ...

NAMD Conference Offers Reflection on 2020, Contemplation of Health Policy in 2021
Members of PCG’s Health team attended the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) virtual conference from November 9th – November 11th. The conference breakout sessions showcased Medicaid Directors sharing various ...

NASHP’s 2020 Conference: Zooming in on Telehealth
The National Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP)’s annual conference looked a little different this year, due to being delivered in a virtual format, but still included the same informative ...

Roundup of Recent Federal Health Policy Developments
While the COVID-19 pandemic remains the center of everyone’s attention and COVID-19-related policy developments continue (for more on this topic, see this month’s COVID-19 Update), there has been a recent ...

PCG’s top health trends to look for in 2016
Year end is a time of reflection, and a time to plan for what’s to come. Here at PCG, our Health team has much to be proud of in 2015: ...