Relentless Health Value

And here I thought I knew a lot about value-based care. In this health care podcast, I am speaking with Mark Fendrick, MD, who is the director over at the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design. This conversation is for those of you who already know pretty much about value-based care concepts. If you do not, I’d go back and listen to, say, Encore! EP206, with Ashok Subramanian, before this one.   Dr. Fendrick talks in this health care podcast about what it takes for value-based care to happen in the real world. No kidding, it’s about making sure that reimbursement is aligned with good things (no great surprise there). Everybody is always talking about properly aligning provider incentives. And, although often discussed, it really matters. But two light bulb moments I had in this conversation with Dr. Fendrick: Here we are at the beginning of the year. How many doctors and nurses, inspired to do the right thing, have told their patients with diabetes, say, to go get an eye exam to chec