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TriHealth patient Patti Needham felt “miserable” before her primary care physician connected her with two TriHealth programs as part of their value-based care model.

Under this model, Needham’s providers collaborated to ensure she received high quality care in managing diabetes and weight loss.

In the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast, Needham discusses her health care journey and the benefits of value-based care with Dr. Raymond Metzger, a TriHealth physician, and Jamie Smith, market president and publisher of the Cincinnati Business Courier.

“Historically, health care systems and providers, like doctors and nurse practitioners, usually get paid on a fee-for-service model, which tends to be very episodic and very fragmented,” Metzger said.

“A provider in a hospital system that's involved in value-based care is going to really focus on screening,” he said.

Listen to this episode of Getting Health Care Right to hear more about:

• The pros of a value-based care model when compared with a traditional health care model (1:46).
• What the patient experiences in a value-based care model (2:21).
• How Needham manages diabetes treatment and weight loss with TriHealth’s programs (3:42).
• What a value-based care system means for doctors (9:00).
• TriHealth’s partnership with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Ohio, and how it’s helping patients receive high-quality care at lower costs (10:37).

Learn more about value-based care at TriHealth.

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Precision medicine involves a highly individualized approach to health care, whether it’s prevention, diagnosis or treatment. The fact that technology has evolved to such a point makes for an exciting time in medicine, according to Courtney Rice, director of precision medicine and genetic counselor with TriHealth, on the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast.

“The first Human Genome Project took two years to do a sequencing of one individual, and the project was over $2 billion,” Rice says. “Fast-forward to present day. The cost of genetic testing is around a few hundred dollars and we can see results return back within a week.”

In this episode, Rice talks precision medicine with host Jamie Smith, market president and publisher of the Cincinnati Business Courier. Listen for more about:

• The percentage of new medicines approved by the FDA in the past nine years that are considered precision medicine (3:03).
• Times to check with your primary care provider to see if precision medicine or genetic testing is appropriate (6:58).
• What happens during a genetic counseling visit (9:50).
• Types of testing typically covered by insurance (11:24).
• How precision medicine fits with TriHealth’s population health model (14:06).

Rice also discusses the topic of genetic information misuse and laws in place that protect patients. The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) states a person’s genetic information is protected from health insurance companies and employers from misusing the information. (GINA law does not apply to supplemental insurance such as life, long-term care, or disability insurance and does not apply to employers with fewer than 15 employees, U.S. military or federal government employees. The U.S. military and federal government have separate policies in place that may protect these members.)

Personalized care is better care. Learn more about precision medicine and genetic services at TriHealth.

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Many college campuses across the country have partnered with a local health care organization to provide student health services, according to Jean Griffin, dean of students at Xavier University. But Xavier’s partnership with TriHealth is different, she says in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. It’s more multifaceted —and Terri Hanlon-Bremer, EVP and COO of TriHealth, agrees.

“We started off looking at how we help the athletic students at Xavier with equipment and facility enhancements,” Hanlon-Bremer says. “That got brought into some nutritional alignment so we could use the student athletes as role models to other students on campus. … Then we added the onsite medical services TriHealth provides to both the student and employee population, and that nicely dovetails into behavioral health.”

Listen as Griffin and Hanlon-Bremer highlight the most important aspects of their organizational partnership in this episode, hosted by Jamie Smith, market president and publisher of the Cincinnati Business Courier. Hear more about:

· Academic innovations at Xavier that are influenced by TriHealth’s presence on campus.

· How the partnership seeks to address labor shortages in the health care space.

· Problem solving together throughout the pandemic.

· Why the Xavier-TriHealth partnership is advantageous to Cincinnati-area business leaders.

· Students’ growing focus on well-being and balance in their lives.

TriHealth and Xavier University are working together for wellness. Learn more.