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The proportion of value-based payments from the commercial sector to physicians and hospitals increased from 10.9 percent in 2012 to 53.0 percent in 2017. However, an overwhelming majority of those alternative payments were built on a fee-for-service foundation.
Those were the findings captured in the latest National Scorecard on Payment Reform, released in December 2019 by the Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), an independent, non-profit corporation dedicated to improving the value of healthcare services with the help of over 30 employers.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Scorecard examined data from the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions’ eValue8 health plan survey to evaluate the commercial sector’s progress with value-based payment implementation.