Executive Briefings | July 13, 2010
Embracing Case Rates To Make Medical Homes A Reality
July 13, 2010
There is lots of interest in medical homes. While the concept is certainly sound, the question at the policy and practice level is how to make the medical home concept financially viable at the service system level. Will incentive payments, layered on fee-for-service reimbursement, really create a sustainable financial model?
One option for consideration is to abandon the fee-for-service paradigm all together. This proposition was very eloquently expressed by Dale Klatzker, Ph.D., chief executive of Providence Center in Rhode Island, in . . .