RevCycle Intelligence December 1, 2017
Supporting patients across the care continuum in value-based care requires independent physicians to form important partnerships.
At first glance, value-based care models appear to work against independent physicians. The risk-based arrangement requires a coordination of services across care continuum — primarily between primary care physicians and specialists but also including providers in hospitals, post-acute care, and home health.
As it turns out, independent physicians can have their cake and eat it too by forging new forms of collaborative agreements with other providers to create networks of care that enable them to maintain their practice styles while working alongside others to deliver patient-centered care.
That was the major takeaway from the penultimate panel at the Value-Based Care Summit Boston on succeeding...