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Maximizing Value vs. Minimizing Cost in Healthcare Purchasing

Is a private-label product really better once you factor in performance, durability, and everything it takes to support it? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. The job is knowing the d...

Kidney Care Is Value‑Based Care’s Toughest Economic Test — and It’s Working

For years, the central question was whether value-based care could work at all. Today, evidence from kidney care moves us beyond that debate. The more urgent questions are who can...

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Do Healthcare CEOs Agree on Whether VBC and MA Actually Save Money?

Healthcare leaders can’t tell whether value-based care and Medicare Advantage are truly lowering costs. Some see promise in these models and ongoing innovations, while others say t...

Winning under CMS TEAM: Building the learning health system to realize success in VBC today and tomorrow

Starting January 1, 2026, over 700 hospitals across the United States faced a new...

Are drug prices value-based?

One of the central tensions in pharmaceutical policy is the gap between what a drug is worth and what it actually costs. In theory, a drug’s price should reflect its value — its ab...

CMMI’s Advancing Chronic Care with Effective Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model Explained

In May 2025, CMS’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) unveiled it’s “Make America Healthy Again” vision. CMMI models focus on not only “protecting the federal tax...

Fixed-Price Contracting as Default: A Shift in Federal Procurement Policy

A recent executive order marks a significant policy shift in federal procurement by directing agencies to default to fixed-price, performance-based contracting....By: Bradley Arant...

Expanding the CJR Model Is a Logical Step in VBC, but Implementation Challenges Remain

CMS is proposing to make its joint replacement bundled payment model mandatory nationwide. Experts say it is a logical step, but warn that mandatory participation could be challeng...

Fixed-Price Contracting as Default- A Shift in Federal Procurement Policy-

A recent executive order marks a significant policy shift in federal procurement by directing agencies to default to fixed-price, performance-based contracting. Framed as an effort...

How Value-Based Care Could Finally Fix What’s Broken in Autism Treatment

The clinicians working in this system are often deeply committed to their patients. The problem is the system itself which rewards the quantity of time and largely ignores the qual...