Health Systems Facing Strong Headwinds in Shift to Value-Based Care
Healthcare Innovation March 8, 2022
Provider organizations find it difficult to redirect resources to population-based care delivery if only a small fraction of their patient population is under these models
Health systems continue to face strong headwinds as they seek to shift to value-based care models. They’re not able to advance the redesign as rapidly as they’d like, given the small total share of their revenues these value-based payment models represent, explains RAND Corp.’s Cheryl Damberg, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Damberg, director of the RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance, distinguished chair in Health Care Payment Policy, and a principal senior economist at RAND, was speaking at the March 7 meeting of the federal Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC). She and Michael Chernew,...