Many providers focus on high-cost patients when looking at ways to reduce growing healthcare costs, but taking a broader approach may be more effective.
This is especially true for those who are involved in alternative payment models, like accountable care organizations, said J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., a professor of health policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Aaron L. Schwartz, Ph.D., a health economist at Harvard, in an article for the New England Journal of Medicine.
