Should MAHA Tackle the Chronic Disease Epidemic with Preventative Care?
Luke Hansen, M.D., M.H.S., chief medical officer of Arcadia, a healthcare data analytics company, explains that the Make America Healthy Again initiative’s focus on chronic disease support will benefit value-based care and preventative care.
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, lists tackling the chronic disease epidemic through preventative care as one of its main key initiatives, according to their website.
In a video interview with Managed Healthcare Executive, Luke Hansen, M.D., M.H.S., chief medical officer of Arcadia, explains that he supports this idea.
Luke Hansen, M.D., M.H.S.
“As a clinician, absolutely. I will reshare the sketch I did earlier about the chronic disease patient who's asymptomatic. That is the problem,” Hansen said. “When someone gets in a car wreck and their femur is broken, well, they're going to come for help.”
He continues by saying that while a shift towards preventative medicine is what we need, there are some challenges.
“In the abstract, the agenda to shift to a preventive and a wellness paradigm is absolutely what we need, but how do we incentivize the system to change their whole philosophy?” Hansen said. “There’s a lot of muscle memory around billable encounters and the level of CPT.”
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