At a recent America’s Health Insurance Plans conference on Medicare, Humana CEO Bruce Broussard talked about value-based payments, care integration and analytics. Hit this link to read the full story.
He noted the fact that U.S. healthcare is mostly built on an episodic model, rather than on a model that helps individuals manage their chronic conditions, is a major part of its cost and quality problems.
He discussed the challenge for insurers to move from what he called a “managed care chassis”— which focuses on such transactional tasks as handling claims and processing preauthorizations—to companies primarily focused on easing integration between the system’s silos.
Among his observations, he described three aspects of improving care and cutting costs, which were, as summarized by FierceHealthcare:
