MedPage Today August 27, 2024
— Its recently announced partnership with Kaiser Permanente is an exciting development
The COVID pandemic that overwhelmed our healthcare industry and laid bare the vulnerability of our systems is relatively well contained today. Now that we’ve moved beyond crisis mode, where is U.S. healthcare headed as a system?
My hope is that we will return our attention to the health system’s transition from fee-for-service to value-based care (VBC). This entails expanding the implementation of care delivery and payment models that are aligned with “upstream” services (e.g., prevention and care coordination). The focus is on the quality of services, health promotion, access, and affordability.
I will be the first to admit that VBC is still a work in progress and even...
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