Numerof & Associates December 7, 2021
For the past eighteen months, Covid-19 has forced our healthcare system to the top of the national agenda. The headlines were constant – from the struggles of an overwhelmed delivery system, to the record-setting development of vaccines, to the waves of infection and the daily tally of cases across the country and the world. Thanks to the efforts of front-line healthcare providers across the country and to vaccines, a return to some sense of normalcy may be in sight.
And yet, the pandemic has changed healthcare delivery in important ways. It highlighted the downside risk of fee-for-service, as delivery organizations that were forced to suspend nonemergent procedures watched cashflow evaporate. And it raised access to care – via telehealth and...