

Value-based care has had several false starts over the years. But in the next year, several health systems are determined to make progress toward a payment system prizing pay for outcomes over volume.
“Our No. 1 organizational change in 2025 is a substantial shift from fee for service to value-based care,” said Danielle Scheurer, MD, chief quality officer of MUSC Health in Charleston, S.C. “While our organization has been on an incremental journey for many years, we are strategically focusing on the people, processes and technology that will accelerate the pace of change. This is for the good of our organization, and more importantly, for the good of our patients and their families.”
Healthcare has become unaffordable for many patients even though many patients have some form of health insurance coverage. Dr. Scheurer sees opportunities to control the overall cost of care as expanding access to care.
“No one benefits from high costs and there are so many levers that we need to continue to pull at the federal and state and local level to reduce the overall cost of care,” she said during an interview with the “Becker’s Healthcare Podcast.” “Whether it’s diagnostic efficiency, looking at effectiveness models, looking at cost variation, or looking at the cost and distribution of pharmaceuticals. All of those levers have got to be pulled at all levels of healthcare to make an impact, and make it affordable and accessible for normal people to get the healthcare they need and deserve.”