RevCycle Intelligence November 14, 2022
Integrating specialty care and achieving multi-payer alignment are two strategies for advancing not only accountable care as providers know it, but a new definition of the concept.
Accountable care is getting a makeover. For over a decade, the healthcare system has been making the shift to accountable care, or “the coordinated provision of patient services by healthcare providers and facilities with the goals of improving patient and system outcomes and avoiding inefficiencies.” However, recent advancements in value-based care and payment are necessitating a new definition.
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Robert J. Margolis professor of business, medicine, and policy at Duke University, shared the new definition of accountable care at the Health...