Relentless Health Value

If you listen to this show on the regular, you probably have a pretty good bead on a couple of things I’ve been really into lately. One of them is high-value care versus low-value care. These are terms that are really easy to throw around. You also can get pretty much everybody to agree with a plan to deliver only high-value care and quit it with the low-value care … in theory. But the wheels fall right off the bus when it comes to actually doing this. IRL (in real life), what constitutes high-value care and what is low-value care exactly and specifically? This answer is the crucible for value-based care of almost any flavor. How are you supposed to do value-based care successfully when it remains an open question, “What is care that is of value?” Here’s the good news, though. There is a bounty of unmistakably, inarguably low-value things. We can start there. Now, these low-value things may be situational in some respects, so you’ll need to listen to my interview with Dr. Mark Fendrick (EP308) for the scoop o