Healthcare Innovation January 17, 2023
After surviving the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, patient care organization leaders look at the journey ahead into value-based and especially risk-based, contracting, with its heady mix of challenges and opportunities
A lot has happened in healthcare over the past three years; in January 2020, the COVID-19 virus was first officially documented as having arrived in the U.S., and by March, a full public health emergency had been declared, shutting down the vast majority of non-emergency surgical procedures and throwing the U.S. healthcare system into crisis, with COVID cases overwhelming the system and leading to tremendous challenges, some of which are lingering even now. Indeed, the clinician and other staffing shortages, the increase in staffing and supply costs, and the...