Building a Health Equity Focus into Value-Based Payment Design: Approaches for Medicaid Payers
Value-based payment (VBP) models shift health care payment from rewarding volume of care provided (i.e., fee-for-service payment) to rewarding the delivery of higher value care.1 As the health care system has increased its focus on health equity, many Medicaid payers, including state agencies and managed care organizations, see promise in aligning high-priority health care payment…