Modern Healthcare December 13, 2017
ORLANDO—Providers and payers must continue to focus on efforts that transform healthcare delivery even as uncertainty persists around access to care and payment reform, prominent healthcare leaders said Tuesday.
Hospitals and insurers can’t wait for federal policies to move the dial on value-based care and instead must pro-actively make investments to improve quality of care at lower costs, said Dr. Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Dr. Patrick Conway, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, in a panel at the IHI’s National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Orlando.
“I don’t think waiting (for policy changes) is a good option,” Conway said. “I think there is a lot...
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