Healthcare IT Today November 29, 2022
The following is a guest article by Hugh Lytle, Founder and CEO at Equality Health.
The transition from fee-for-service medicine to value-based payments represents the greatest shift in healthcare in more than a century; according to CMS, by 2030 the vast majority of this country’s estimated $6.8 trillion healthcare spending will be tied directly to patient outcomes and satisfaction.
This shift represents a material win for patients – but what of the providers who deliver their care? Some 56% of primary care providers (PCPs) are concerned about the impact that value-based care (VBC) programs will have on earnings, practice operations, and workforce burden – impeding their ability to deliver high-quality care, fully counter to the tenets of the value-based...