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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

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However, transitioning to a VBC approach involves added infrastructure, training costs, and complexity of delivering care in an environment that mixes fee-for-service and value-based reimbursement. Most health systems will need to manage a multitude of reimbursement methodologies. One example illustrates this well.

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Do Doctors Get Worse as They Get Older?

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However, this policy has recently come under scrutiny due to its high burden to doctors and the lack of sound evidence that recertification processes improve doctors’ quality of care. Another explanation may be that physicians are most skilled in the few years after residency training.