Managed Healthcare Executive April 14, 2021
Whether the cup of value-based care is half empty or half full may depend on your point of view. But the grail certainly isn’t full. Some of the leading lights at the Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania have released recommendations to hasten the volume-to-value healthcare transformation.
Among their more provocative suggestions is increasing the number of valued-based programs that would be involuntary. One of the authors, Hoangmai H. Pham, M.D., M.P.H., said during a webinar in March that there had been an “undue skittishness about deploying mandatory models.”
Another author, Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., discussed the investment of resources and time it takes providers to change to healthcare that rewards quality and lowers...