Executive Briefings | May 11, 2013
Preparing For Value-Based Contracting: The OPEN MINDS Toolkit
Across the wide range of stakeholders in the health and human service field, most want to see an end to fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement. What comes next is yet to be defined – but there are a range of pay-for-performance and/or risk-based reimbursement models that are loosely referred to as "value-based purchasing."
The drivers of this shift to value-based purchasing are many – including the unwillingness of payers to increase service fees in the face of rising costs, the failure of Congress to address Medicare FFS rates, the changes (in many . . .