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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

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In addition, we believe that in order to deliver on the promise of improved health and reduced spending, VBC must be augmented with a structured approach to eliminate waste and be delivered in conjunction with a broad-based effort to address factors that are outside of the traditional boundaries of healthcare.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

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Since its founding in 2010, Iora has attracted more than $123 million in funding and now operates 37 practices serving 40,000 patients in 11 states. To that end, Iora has developed a “worry score” methodology, which rates each patient on a 1-to-4 scale according to their health status and needs.