90% of Value-Based Payments in Commercial Sector Based on FFS

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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…

New Marketplace Survey: Transitioning Payment Models: Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care

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In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, sponsored by Optum, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already happening. Respondents report that a quarter of reimbursement at their organizations is based on value, on…