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Low-Value Care is Everywhere. What is Driving It and How Can We Intervene?
February 04, 2020 | Perspective
Commercial payers spent more than $5.5 billion on 20 select low-value health care services in 2015, according to a new study from the Research Consortium for Healthcare Value Assessment, a collaboration between Altarum and VBID Health. To reduce the widespread prevalence of low-value care, we need to take a closer look at where it is occurring and why.
Introducing the Low Value Care Visualizer—A Tool to Help States Simplify Analytics for Action
January 30, 2020 | Perspective
How do we shift our focus from how much we spend to how well it is spent? Reducing low-value care is a good start, but often the resulting findings are dense and hard to manage. We’ve created a tool to help visualize and help make sense of these findings.
How We're Strengthening Provider Capacity to Serve Postpartum Women at Risk of Opioid Misuse
January 21, 2020 | Perspective
Altarum is helping WIC and community health centers increase screening of new mothers for substance misuse and refer them to recovery support services so they can get the help they need.
Altarum Releases Policy Scorecard Report to Help States Strengthen Efforts to Address Affordability of Health Care
January 07, 2020 | Press Release
Lawmakers, policymakers, government officials, consumer advocates, and the public can use this scorecard to understand how their state performs on addressing health care affordability relative to other states, and to craft a road map for specific evidence-based policy actions. Additionally, a few exemplar states in this scorecard provide proof-of-concept that other states can emulate.
Bureau of Justice Assistance Enlists Altarum to Help Criminal Justice Organizations Implement Peer Recovery Support Services to Address Opioid Crisis
December 10, 2019 | Press Release
Altarum is expanding the reach of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Peer Recovery Support Services Training and Technical Assistance Center, a critical resource to criminal justice and social services organizations across the nation.
Altarum to Monitor and Evaluate the Community Care Corps, a Federal Initiative to Recruit and Train Volunteers to Provide Non-medical Care to Elders
December 03, 2019 | Announcement
Altarum is part of a team that is leading the development of the Community Care Corps, a federal initiative to recruit and train volunteers to provide non-medical care to elders.
Altarum Presents Innovative Work at APHA’s 2019 Annual Meeting
December 02, 2019 | Announcement
Several of our experts attended the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting last month to share findings of our work in eldercare, oral health, opioid use disorder, and military health—all in the service of our mission to advance health of vulnerable and publicly insured populations.
Altarum and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute to Help Michigan Primary Care Practices Expand Treatment of Unhealthy Alcohol Use
November 13, 2019 | Press Release
Altarum and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute have been awarded a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help primary care practices in Michigan increase screening and treatment for unhealthy alcohol use.