Farzad Mostashari's Aledade Helps Doctors Get Paid for Prevention

Farzad Mostashari's Aledade Helps Doctors Get Paid for Prevention

Author: John Lynn January 8, 2026 Duration: 28:24

CMS provides numerous avenues to implement value-based care. Dr. Farzad Mostashari, who was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology during a critical period of EHR implementations in the U.S., co-founded Aledade 11 years ago to make value-based care feasible—or as he puts it in this interview, “make it more profitable to prevent a stroke than to treat a stroke.”

Aledade now works with 2,400 practices and community health centers in 46 states and the District of Columbia. They have built their own technology to better facilitate value-based care, which includes interoperability, a prediction engine, user-friendly guided workflows and cutting-edge data analytics, all tied together to surface actionable insights at the point of care and drive/inform care coordination workflows.

Learn more about Aledade: https://aledade.com/

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