Ira Klein, MD, MBA, FACP—Column Editor

Business of Pathways

Health Care as a Preexisting Financial Condition: Individual Costs and Societal Benefits

12/17/2019

While societally we are still debating the best way to finance health care, we do all agree that when a therapy is available to alleviate illness and suffering, we should find a way to make it available to patients....

While...

12/17/2019

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Broadening the Value Assessment Paradigm: Including the Value of Hope and the Value of Insurance

10/18/2019

Sean McElligott , MS;

Ira Klein , MD, MBA, FACP;

*/ /*-->*/ While social media is all about sharing, very little personal preference data makes its way into health plan contracting around specific interventions and pathway programs today. As a result, the...

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10/18/2019

Journal of Clinical Pathways

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Cell and Gene Therapies: Paying It Forward and Adjusting Payment Systems for the Age of Cures

06/18/2019

Ira Klein , MD, MBA, FACP;

Sean McElligott , MS;

Cell and gene therapies represent the next frontier of pharmaceutical development, holding the promise of delivering potentially curative therapies for diseases that have limited treatment options. However, these...

Cell...

06/18/2019

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Why Threshold Target Performance-Based Metrics May Not Improve Population Health as Much as Treatment Pathways

04/16/2019

Ira Klein , MD, MBA, FACP;

Cheryl Neslusan , PhD;

Pierre Johansen , MSc;

Christian Asseburg , PhD;

Duncan O'Brien , BEc;

Michael Willis , PhD;

Silas Martin , MS;

Many value-based payment agreements (VBAs) and programs incentivize physicians to provide care based on patients’ achievement of treatment targets, especially threshold-based metrics such as maintaining a...

Many...

04/16/2019

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Engaging in Nontraditional Partnerships to Improve Population Health

11/18/2018

Silas Martin , MS;

Robert A. Bailey , MD;

Ira Klein , MD, MBA, FACP;

Population health, which encompasses the health outcomes of a specific group of individuals, has become an important concept in modern health care systems. Many public policy initiatives in recent years have included...

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11/18/2018

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