Physicians Practice November 6, 2024
Michael Poku, MD, Keith A. Reynolds

VBC and its payment models are not designed or implemented in such a way that makes it possible for primary care physicians to take part.

Value-based care has been heralded as the future of healthcare for more than a decade, but it has yet to fully arrive.

This gap is particularly evident in primary care, which must be on board if the promise of value-based care (VBC) is to be achieved. The Commonwealth Fund, a private U.S. foundation dedicated to improving healthcare, recently issued a report exploring why primary care has been so slow to adopt VBC.

According to a 2022 Commonwealth Fund survey, just 46% of primary care physicians (PCPs) reported receiving any value-based payments. Commonwealth Fund researchers found...

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