Value-Based Care vs. the Hyper-Financialization of Medicine
Episode Description
After a year of interviews about value-based care, the same things keep coming up. Fee-for-service is still the problem. Payers want to pay less, providers want to bill more. And twenty years in, the people who helped build value-based care are grading it a C-minus/
In his first solo episode, host John Marchica goes back through the transcripts and pulls out what guests agree on: the problems value-based care is trying to fix, the fixes they keep proposing — mandatory participation, full-risk capitation, payer-provider integration — how it's going so far, and where the real progress is likely to come from, which is the states, not Washington.
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🎙 ABOUT DR. ELLIOTT FISHER
Elliott Fisher is former primary care physician and now Professor of Health Policy at the Dartmouth Institute and the Geisel School of Medicine. His early research revealed that US regions with higher Medicare spending did not achieve better quality or outcomes, revealing the magnitude of unnecessary care and providing evidence that universal insurance should be affordable. He worked with colleagues to develop the concept of Accountable Care Organizations and to achieve their inclusion in the Affordable Care Act. His current research and activism focuses on how to strengthen primary care, improve population health and make health care affordable for all. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation.
🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John Marchica as he discusses the latest advancements in health care business news and policy developments.
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