CSPAN’s coverage of West Health’s HCI 2019 Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit. Dr. Mark McClellan, who is the Director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University and the former commissioner of the FDA during the Bush administration, cites New West as an example of a practice that is focused on high value care, saying that they “have seen a number of organizations around the country, New West physicians in Denver, that have paired their efforts to focus on high value care, with efforts to eliminate low value care. This is maybe taking the “choosing wisely” approach and putting a lot more force behind it. Not just having the conversations, but changing the payment model, implementing data, and analytics, to support identifying opportunities for avoiding low value care, engaging the physicians, and the patients, in different kinds of care models.”
Health Care Costs Summit, Afternoon Session
West Health, comprised of the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, the foundation and the policy center holds a day-long summit on health care costs and innovation. Featured speakers include former…
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