The pursuit of value-based care is a marathon, and many health systems need to pick up the pace

Deloitte December 6, 2018
Wendy Gerhardt

I recently attended the 3rd Annual Value-Based Care Summit in Boston. I always love visiting Bean Town (baseball, lobster rolls, clam chowder, the Boston Marathon). But I was particularly excited to get into the meaty discussions at the conference. It has been three years since the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) went into effect. The law provides incentives for the adoption of value-based payment models for physicians, so I was excited to hear about the experiences health system executives have had so far.

The shift to value-based payment models, it turns out, has been slower than many of us expected, and success stories are limited. While launching pilots and tracking results have been important first steps, full adoption...

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