Irem Rami and Sam Lesser

Irem Rami is a Principal at Norwest Venture Partners on the healthcare investment team. She brings over a decade of investing and operating experience across various stages of healthcare services and healthcare technology companies. At Norwest, she focuses on venture and growth equity opportunities across healthcare services, healthcare IT, pharma services and digital health.

Sam Lesser is an investor at Norwest Venture Partners on the healthcare investment team. He focuses on venture opportunities including digital health and healthcare IT, technology-enabled healthcare services and medical devices.

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Contributed: Opportunities for innovators in the next wave of value-based care

By Irem Rami and Sam Lesser 10:33 am October 3, 2024

Wider adoption of value-based care (VBC) would be a boon to our healthcare system by lowering costs and improving outcomes for all three P's: patients, providers and payers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has led the charge on driving VBC adoption with a series of specialty VBC programs, including July’s launch of the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model....