Medical Economics June 27, 2024
House subcommittee holds hearing on best ways to shift from fee-for-service for treatments, to incentivizing better health for patients.
Value-based care can make Medicare patients healthier while sustaining physicians’ practices, but it needs fine tuning within the U.S. health care system to optimize outcomes.
A panel of experts shared their opinions in the “Hearing on Improving Value-Based Care for Patients and Providers,” convened June 26, 2024, by the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee. Representatives, physicians and an administrator exchanged their views about what works to help patients, and a lot that could be better.
“Simply put, the current system, fee for service, that model in health care is not working,” said Subcommittee Chair Rep. Vern Buchanan...