Physicians offer strategies to balance accountable and fee-for-service payment models

Fierce Healthcare December 13, 2017
Paige Minemyer

Clinicians who treat ACO patients are likely to run into incompatible financial incentives, experts say.

Accountable care organizations are beginning to show positive results, but there are challenges inherent for providers that have one foot in the value-based payment world and the other in fee-for-service reimbursement.

There are steps that health systems can take to address these challenges and ease the transition to value-based care, wrote Ishani Ganguli, M.D., a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Timothy G. Ferris, M.D., the senior vice president of population health management at Partners HealthCare, in a piece for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

For instance, physicians who treat ACO patients often run into conflicting financial incentives, they wrote. This...

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