Medical Economics February 25, 2018
Last year’s uncertainty over the future of value-based care did not deter Marlyce Hill Ali, MD, from delivering healthcare in the way she thinks is best.
The internist at JenCare Senior Medical Center in Louisville, Kentucky, was aware of the questions about the new administration’s approach to value-based care, as well as turnover at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But she never had doubts about the value-based care model.
“We’re still operating with the status quo and still functioning the way we were founded to perform. It hasn’t affected operations at all,” she says.
By the end of 2017, much of the uncertainty had lifted. The shift...