Dr. Ben Zaniello of PointClickCare Talks Value-Based Care

Value-based care has been offered as a solution to minimize healthcare costs for patients and payers while providing the best possible health outcomes. In a new interview with Skilled Nursing News, Dr. Ben Zaniello, CFO of PointClickCare talks about the challenges and benefits of value-based care. One setback for value-based care is the relative paucity of providers that use the reimbursement model.

According to Zaniello, “There are not many value-based quality measures in place, and they’re limited in their scope and impact. For example, the Medicare five-star ratings focus on proxy, process-oriented measures like staffing ratios instead directly on outcomes of care. That is significant because it means that if you come up with a way to achieve better clinical outcomes with fewer staff — perhaps possible with remote patient monitoring — the current value-based care construct in the post-acute world would actually penalize you!”

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(Source: Skilled Nursing News, September 26^th, 2022)