RevCycle Intelligence February 5, 2024
Comprehensive primary care is essential to holistic health, but practices cannot make impressionable improvements without stable value-based payment and adequate resources.
Primary care is arguably the most critical component of our healthcare system. Primary care and preventive medicine can help avert and manage chronic diseases and prevent long-term complications.
However, efforts to improve primary care delivery, such as value-based payment models, are lacking. That’s not to say that the industry doesn’t understand the importance of value-based care when it comes to primary care, though.
Prioritizing primary care can not only help improve patients’ overall well-being, but it can also redirect spending away from expensive specialty care that can be avoided when preventive visits are a regular occurrence. When these preventive...