Effective Value-Based Healthcare Requires Rejecting Inferior Approaches and Promoting Health Equity

Although many approaches to value-based healthcare have been proposed or implemented in recent years, not all of them adequately address health equity or reduce risk. Healthcare experts at the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University have suggested actions that would improve patient outcomes while reducing costs.

“Many value-based programs have been launched. The results have been on the “meh” side: mixed and underwhelming. But a new administration in Washington and the appointment of Liz Fowler as director of CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) are widely seen as an opening to winnow out what hasn’t worked and keep what has.” Read more here.

(Source: Managed Healthcare Executive, 7/7/21)