心电图’s radio show and podcast, 医疗保健上升/下降, offers unfiltered perspectives on what’s working in US healthcare and what’s not. Hosted by 心电图 principal Dr. 尼克·范·特海登, each episode features guest panelists who explore the upsides and downsides of healthcare in the US—and how to make the system work for everyone.
I’m not a gambler at heart, but my first visit to Las Vegas was a memorable one. It was on one of my first trips to the US with some good friends, and we knew little about Sin City outside of what we’d seen on TV.
Making any bet on a game of chance was a struggle for me personally, but together with my three companions, we had a successful run at the roulette table, walking away with a whopping $32 (split four ways). That was the beginning and end of my betting career; I was content to leave Vegas firmly in the “winner” column.
I may not have gambled money since then, 但是在很多方面, 每一天都是一场赌博, and we weigh odds every time we make a decision. 凡事都有风险. And based on an excellent book by Maria Konnikova, “最大的虚张声势”,” our best bet is to learn how to make good bets. This is true in healthcare.
I am sure many healthcare leaders feel like they’re constantly gambling as they navigate the long list of variables, 演化规律, and changing demands of our health systems. If they stick with their basic formula and come out on top most of the time, it can be hard for them to alter their strategy.
The fee-for-service model may have worked in the past, but we’ve seen compelling evidence that it’s no longer serving us. Value-based care offers a better approach, but its implementation rates remain stubbornly low.
On episode 58 of 医疗保健上升/下降, 内特·麦卡锡 and Sandy Myerson of 心电图 join us to talk about the factors inhibiting widespread adoption of pay-for-performance models and how healthcare organizations, 供应商, and payers can collaborate to make value-based care a reality. 下面是一些节选.
On the sluggish adoption of value-based care models.
内特: Part of it, really, is that change is hard. Even when change is positive, the move to value requires a lot of operational change, 人员配备, 重组, and shifts along the way. And while we’ve seen stats that 60% of organizations are in some type of value-based arrangement, only about 15% of them are in an arrangement that has downside risk, where the provider organization is in it with more skin, 如果你愿意.
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Enabling physicians to deliver high-quality care while getting paid appropriately.
内特: From our perspective, we see three different components. It’s having the payer contracts in place to move to value so that you’re getting revenue that aligns with the outcomes you’re trying to achieve. Then you need to make sure you’ve got physician compensation and incentive structures aligned so that staff, 临床bet8网站备用, and 供应商 are all focusing on their own financial component matching with the revenue your organization is getting. And then the organization has to provide the operational components to do that. 如果没有数据, if the workflows aren’t designed the right way, if the structure isn’t there on the hospital side, then that collaboration falls apart.
珊蒂: It’s really around understanding what the evidence-based practices are. 根据我的经验, we in healthcare do not do a good job of standardizing and implementing those evidence-based practices and standardizing the workflows. Working with 临床bet8网站备用 to define those workflows that Nate talked about and standardize them and implement them broadly across an organization will help get that organization to a place where they can deliver high-value care and improve clinical quality outcomes. If that piece isn’t in place, then an organization is never going to be able to succeed in solely value-based care or pay-for-performance.
在播客上, Sandy and Nate talk further about creating a transparent organization that is data driven and operationalized for value.
编辑: 马特杂粮面包
Published January 17, 2023