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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. There were also many other barriers to effective care, including lack of transportation, inadequate housing, and inability to read prescriptions.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

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For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Predictable schedules. It’s also expensive.

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