Healthcare Reimbursement Still Largely Fee-for-Service Driven

RevCycle Intelligence March 26, 2020
Emily Sokol, MPH

The healthcare industry is still heavily reliant on fee-for-service reimbursement despite a drive to adopt value-based care, according to Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s recent Value-Based Care Assessment.

Value-based reimbursement is frequently cited as healthcare’s silver bullet. Changing the way providers are incentivized to deliver care can alter care delivery, placing the focus on high-quality, low-cost care rather than high-volume, sick care. Many alternative payment models have emerged that leverage various quality metrics and levels of financial risk.

But the healthcare industry is still heavily reliant on fee-for-service reimbursement, according to a recent study by Insights, the research division Xtelligent Healthcare Media.

The Value-Based Care Assessment — the first of many Insights publications to come in 2020 — surveyed 174 healthcare professions...

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