Relentless Health Value

In this Summer Short Episode of Relentlessly Seeking Value, host Stacey Richter discusses the hidden costs and inefficiencies of value-based care with Elizabeth Mitchell, President and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH). To read the full article and show notes which include mentioned links, visit the episode page.  If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter to be a member of the Relentless Tribe. They uncover how value-based care, often touted as the ideal system, can be manipulated by middlemen to extract more money from plan sponsors without delivering real value to patients. Through a critical conversation involving examples and insights from various experts, they explore the disconnect between financial incentives and actual care quality in American healthcare. Elizabeth argues for for-real alternative payment models that are transparent to the employer plan sponsors. She wants prospective payments or bundled payments, and she wants them with warranties