Leavitt Partners Blog
We Cannot Predict, but We Can Prepare: How Employers Can Approach their COVID-19 Strategies
By Emilie Ebert and Alan Hanson As areas in the United States ease restrictions, and as more industries resume operations, many business owners are wary of how they could be impacted by future outbreaks of COVID-19. For many, restarting the economy is a relief. However, the threat of disruption from flare-ups in COVID-19 transmission have […]
Read More >Blog Post – Peaking COVID: When Will the Country See a Decrease in Cases?
Written by Robert Richards, Ph.D. and David Muhlestein, Ph.D., JD The global COVID-19 pandemic is the largest public health crisis in generations. Life as we know it, from macroeconomic conditions all the way down to personal daily life, has been impacted significantly (to put it lightly). As the pandemic has now been with us for […]
Read More >Social Distancing vs. COVID-19: Are We Flattening the Curve?
Written by Robert Richards, Ph.D., Ben Gong, and David Muhlestein, Ph.D., JD The global COVID-19 pandemic has caused the U.S. and many other countries to put their economies on pause in an effort to slow the spread of the disease. The social distancing policies in place in many locations have dramatically altered our daily lives […]
Read More >End the Uncertainty for Those at the Front Line of Coronavirus Crisis Response
Written by Governor Mike Leavitt, Founder; Chair, Board of Managers, at Leavitt Partners As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) prepares to start disbursing funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, as appropriated by Congress in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, it is critical that […]
Read More >COVID-19: The Lightning Rod is a Strategy Centered on Value
Written by Bo Nemelka, Principal, and Brett Graham, Chief Strategy Officer, at Leavitt Partners The Lightning Rod is a Strategy Centered on Value A lightning rod is a metal rod placed on top of a building which is connected to the ground below to protect the building from being damaged by lightning strikes. When (not […]
Read More >Quality Measures: How do you know if you are paying for quality if you can’t properly measure it?
Value-Based Payment (VBP) arrangements allow health care purchasers to align financial outcomes to quality clinical outcomes. Such arrangements are designed to drive improvements in health outcomes at multiple levels (i.e., individual, community, within a risk pool) and reduce the cost burden associated with treatment and prevention. Quality measurement is a central component to these arrangements—how […]
Read More >Perspective on the Iowa Caucuses
Written by Cristal Gary, principal, Leavitt Partners Two days after the Iowa caucuses we still don’t know who the official winner is, but we do know that health care was the top issue for caucus goers. With polls consistently showing health care as the top issue for Iowa Democrats, the caucuses were set to be […]
Read More >Assessing Current and Expected Growth of Alternative Payment Models: A Look at the Bold New Goals for Downside Risk
Ambitious Goals for the Future of Value The Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (HCP-LAN or LAN) recently released aggressive new goals for moving the broader market from fee-for-service (FFS) to value-based payment (VBP). The new goals aim to shift all Medicare payments and half of Medicaid and commercial health care payments into downside-risk […]
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