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

Sean McElligott, MS

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

Journal of Clinical Pathways

Business of Pathways

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—Column Editor

*/ /*-->*/ 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

Business of Pathways

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

06/18/2019

Sean McElligott, MS

Ira Klein, MD, MBA, FACP—Column Editor

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

Journal of Clinical Pathways

Business of Pathways

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

04/16/2019

Michael Willis, PhD

Cheryl Neslusan, PhD

Silas Martin, MS

Pierre Johansen, MSc

Christian Asseburg, PhD

Duncan O’Brien, BEc

Ira Klein, MD, MBA, FACP—Column Editor

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

Journal of Clinical Pathways

Business of Pathways

Engaging in Nontraditional Partnerships to Improve Population Health

11/18/2018

Robert A Bailey, MD

Ira Klein, MD, MBA, FACP—Column Editor

Silas Martin

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

Journal of Clinical Pathways