Theresa R. F. Dreyer

Mar 30, 2023 | aamc.org | Theresa R. F. Dreyer |Karen Joynt Maddox

The mission of value-based care (VBC) is to link health care payments to the quality of care patients receive. The goal is to change the financial incentives of the dominant fee-for-service system that pays health care providers more for doing more rather than for doing better. While most agree that “value” in health care must combine both cost and quality, debates about exactly what “value” means and how it is measured have occupied policymakers for decades.