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Value-Based Care Works in the Pilot. The Pilot Is Not the Point

CMS just proposed mandating a joint replacement payment model that genuinely saved Medicare money for 8 years. The data is clean. The problem is what it does not prove about value-based care everywhere else.

By Kai Brighton · 3 min read

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Prior Authorization Needs Surgery, Not a Funeral

Prior authorization costs $62.5 billion a year and delays care that patients need. But the bipartisan bills with supermajority support in Congress don't abolish it. They reform it. There's a reason for that.

By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read