Health Care Insider: A New Way of Thinking About the Value of Population Health

Published: Dec. 4, 2015, 7 a.m.

We pay to educate our population so that we can support a strong and robust economy. But how do we protect our investment? What does it cost when people drop out of the economy because they are not healthy enough to work? What does that mean to an employer-driven healthcare marketplace? Is there an economic reason to provide preventive health care or maybe prevention starts earlier at birth? Dr. Pamela Peele, Chief Analytics Officer at the UPMC Health Plan talks about the economic arguments for population health management.