
Cost of Care Conversations: Motivation/Initiation
Learn more about why cost of care conversations are so crucial to high-quality, equitable health care.
Learn more about why cost of care conversations are so crucial to high-quality, equitable health care.
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.
learn more »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.
learn more » 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.
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.
learn more »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.
learn more »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.
learn more »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.
learn more »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.
learn more »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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