4sight Health January 6, 2022
One of my favorite scenes in The Princess Bride is when Miracle Max tells Inigo and Fezzik that Westley is “mostly dead,” which means he’s “slightly alive.” There’s hope for a full recovery.
We can say the same thing about value-based reimbursement, if we have as much faith in a few recent VBR status reports as Inigo and Fezzik have in Miracle Max. A full recovery for VBR would be good news for patients whose health insurers would pay providers for outcomes rather than services rendered.
Below is a rundown of five recent status reports that suggest VBR is slightly alive.
Slightly more dollars are flowing through APMs
In December 2021, the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network released...