How Value-Based Care Payment Models Could Reduce Costs

Jeremy Earl said that the Affordable Care Act “has by any measure improved access to health insurance coverage [and] has been successful in allowing more people to be covered.” Ankur Goel added that the ACA also “is aligning incentives around quality and payment. Decisions aren’t necessarily being imposed by payers.” Such “negotiated, cooperative arrangements,” Mr. Goel continued, are “very important in the evolution of the payment system.” Read the full article.