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2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar Transcript of Keynote Presentation: The Story of Value-Based Care

​   There is consensus in a divided political climate in Washington that something must be done to address the rising cost of prescription drugs.

Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy was named among 34 "power players" who have been influential in federal health policy. 

(Shared from an article originally published by the VUMC Reporter.) By Jill Clendening The concept of a single-payer, government-run health care program — Medicare for All — has sparked national debate, and that proposal was the focus of a spirited discussion on Nov. 19 at the Research into Policy and Practice Lecture sponsored by the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

  A new study from Melissa McPheeters, PhD, MPH, research professor of health policy, finds that “prescribing (opioids) is common in Tennessee before an overdose, does not decrease appreciably afterward, and MAT may be underutilized as increases in buprenorphine were not observed after overdose events.”

  At a time when health care is consistently one of the most important issues to Americans at home and at the polls, Vanderbilt University (VU) is now accepting applications for its newest doctoral program in health policy.  

 

What doctors are not taught and do not often consider when they're in training is something very familiar but only now rising in priority. What is it? The value — both financial and in quality of care — of the care they deliver to patients. More than 40 attendees spent two days learning just what value-based care is all about during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.