Directions
Reflect on this week’s required readings on value-based insurance design and purchasing. In your initial post, discuss the following in five well-developed paragraphs:
- What are the key differences between fee-for-service and value-based payment arrangements for patients and providers? Which presents more opportunity for quality financial improvement?
- What capabilities are required for community-based health systems to succeed with value-based contracting?
- Compare and contrast the choices to engage employed physicians versus affiliated physicians in transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based care arrangements.
- What are some of the challenges that health systems face when caring for people with both fee-for-service and value-based payment arrangements?
- Discuss one of the cases presented in Chapter 14 in terms of its relevance to value-based design.
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