Understanding Value Based Healthcare

Understanding Value-Based Healthcare should be required reading for all medical students, trainees and faculty. It provides very easy to understand language of some complex concepts across the broad spectrum of "Value-Based Healthcare". The authors are some of the most well-known and revered leaders in the VBH movement, and are all tremendously successful teaching faculty - which is clearly evident by this easy-to-follow guide they have written. If anything, this book is way underpriced - an absolute "must-have" for anyone interested in understanding or working to improve value in their organization.

Great book for anyone looking to learn more about the healthcare industry as it continues to evolve from fee-for-service to fee-for-value. As some reviewers have mentioned, there is not necessarily anything "new" if you've been doing this for awhile, but the authors do an excellent job highlighting the key issues for a general audience. I really enjoyed reading the "Costs of Care" stories, as they are very true to form, both from the patient and physician perspective. Rarely do I read a textbook cover to cover, but this one was just too good that I had a hard time putting it down. I would also highly recommend this as a textbook in applicable educational programs (i.e. health informatics, health economics, managed care, healthcare finance, etc.)

Great overview on the evolution of current Value Based Care, as well as evolving landscape, areas of opportunities to improve healthcare. The eye opening cost of care blog posts, it portrays the picture of current state of healthcare. It was good introductory book for people like me who works as HIT Vendor, trying to use technology to aid in making healthcare delivery more efficient.

A valuable overview of the changing landscape of healthcare in the U.S. We are quickly transitioning from volume to value and this provides a good primer.

Understanding Value-Based Healthcare is precisely the tool needed to help physicians and other healthcare providers understand the impending changes in the current healthcare reimbursement model and navigate these changes successfully. This easy-to-follow book is concise, well-referenced and is organized in a manner that makes following the often complex subject matter almost effortless. I recommend this book highly and without reservation to anyone interested in healthcare reimbursement, from either the payer or provider side of the equation. Kurtis W. Eaton, MD, MBA Medical Director - AL, TN Optum Complex Population Management

This is very well organized book and excellent resource in learning about value based healthcare. It is concise and links to other resources

Fantastic book. As a physician, the entire book is the best top-down book on Value Based Healthcare I've read. On a sidenote - Chapter 2 of the book (Paying for Healthcare in the United States) should be required reading for every American, just to set a foundation for their understanding of "how things work".

I've been in healthcare as a physician and managed care medical director for 2 decades in California. Nothing new here to me but excellent summary of the key issues of today. However, these authors hurt their objectivity by mentioning Obama's White House in one chapter and there may be more such references I haven't found yet...this is childish and unprofessional.