Managed Healthcare Executive January 21, 2022
Our survey results reflect the reality that American healthcare is inching not galloping to value-based care.
The idea of value-based has been circulating in American healthcare for more than a decade. The ACA’s signature effort to break away from fee for service, the Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs, started in 2012. The CMS has launched numerous programs designed to calibrate payment value (lower cost care that is of the same or superior quality). The results have been meh: modest savings, some improvement in the metrics designed to measure quality (although whether they really do is another question). The billions of dollars flowing through American healthcare are still channeled mainly through fee for service.
The results of our State of the...