Healthcare Innovation September 8, 2019
Even as physician groups, hospitals, and health systems begin to take on risk-based contracts, The Advisory Board Company’s Christopher Kearns notes their reluctance to plunge in fully
The metaphor of “one foot in the boat and one foot on the shore,” or alternatively, “one foot in the boat and one foot on the dock,” is being used almost constantly these days in the U.S. healthcare industry to refer to the fact that the vast majority of patient care organizations, whether hospitals, medical groups, or health systems, in the U.S., are already in or are moving into, a situation in which the share of their revenues coming from value-based and/or risk-based contracts, is beginning to reach a significant level now, even...