NEJM August 6, 2020
In times of crisis, you learn a lot more about an organization than you otherwise would. The Regional President of OptumCare discusses the large organization’s goal to become fully value based and how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted its care providers in terms of payment models and other aspects of health care.
Covid-19 has highlighted both the flaws and strengths of U.S. health care. The Regional President of OptumCare and President and CEO of Reliant Medical Group, Tarek Elsawy, MD, says he has never felt prouder to be a physician. At the same time, the pandemic has shown the many parts of fee-for-service health care...