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  • A prescription for value-based care

    John T. Standley|Sep 23, 2015

    The U.S. healthcare system is afflicted with a debilitating chronic illness — rising costs. Health spending could top $10,000 a person this year. Fortunately, there’s a cure. It’s called value-based care, and it represents a fundamental change in how we pay for health care. Instead of paying healthcare providers for what they do to a patient, value-based care compensates them for how their patients do after they leave the doctor’s office. By emphasizing outcomes instead of inputs, value-based care can improve patient health — and cure our... Full story