Behavioral Health Business August 30, 2024
Chris Larson

One of the biggest trends defining the health care sector over the last decade has been the slow-but-steady march toward value-based care and alternative payment models.

Broadly, supporters of such models say they better link providers’ care quality and outcomes to reimbursement, or more appropriately compensate based on patients’ complexity and clinical needs. Shared-savings models, pay-for-performance agreements, global payment arrangements and bundled payments, where providers receive a single payment for all services related to a treatment or condition over a specified period, are examples.

Critics, on the other hand, say convoluted assessments of value put undue burden on providers and could be a vehicle to limit what payers pay out to providers.

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