Cost of Care Conversations: Motivation/Initiation
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Cost of Care Conversation Resources
The Need for Measuring Clinician-Patient Cost-of-Care Conversations
This article, provided by Avalere Health, explores measurement concepts to improve and facilitate physicians and patients to embrace conversations regarding cost in the clinical setting through COVID-19.
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Improving Patient Adherence with Cost of Care Conversations
This presentation provided by the Migrant Clinicians Network offers a brief introduction on cost-of-care conversations for providers by exploring the various elements influencing and involved in these conversations with patients.
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Cost of Care Conversations: Exploring the Evidence
This webinar includes a presentation on the role of cost of care conversations in clinical encounters, an overview of RWJF-funded research on Cost of Care Conversations and shared how the resulting evidence-based tools and resources can guide these important conversations.
U.S. Internists' Perspectives on Discussing Cost of Care With Patients: Structured Interviews and a Survey
This mixed-methods study uses interviews and a survey to understand the factors that influence physicians to discuss and consider cost during a patient encounter.
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Cost-of-Care Conversations During Clinical Visits in Federally Qualified Health Centers: An Observational Study
This observational study examines whether and how cost-of-care conversations occur in primary care encounters specifically in settings that provide care to vulnerable patients.
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Why Should Primary Care Clinicians Routinely Talk with Their Patients About the Expected Costs of Care?
This podcast (the first of four) from Avalere Health focuses on how and why clinicians and other care team members can improve the quality and frequency of cost-of-care conversations.
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The Not-So-Incidental Costs of Pregnancy Care
This informational video from the Sinai Urban Health Institute and UIC Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design summarizes their research around the cost of prenatal care, including patient interviews.
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Why do Cost Conversations Matter?
This Practice Brief from Avalere provides you with information and data points to create buy-in among your peers and your organization’s leadership on the importance of cost-of-care (CoC) conversations.
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What Your Patients Aren’t Telling You: How to Partner with Your Patients To help Manage the Hidden Costs of Healthcare
This Practice Brief from Avalere provides you with information on the burden of indirect costs of care (e.g., transportation, child care, and lost wages) that your patients face, and tips for addressing those costs.
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