Komives Eugenie
senior medical director, Duke Connected Care; family physician, Duke Primary Care; consulting associate, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
N C Med J. 2016 Jul-Aug;77(4):283-5. doi: 10.18043/ncm.77.4.283.
Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurers have committed to moving health care reimbursement from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-value paradigm. Although this push for increased value is not new, the tools used to achieve this goal must change. This commentary will describe this evolution and will contrast prior quality and cost management approaches with those being implemented by health care systems today.