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Bridging the Gap Between Fee-for-Service and Value-Based Care Starts With Physician Feedback

  • Publication: Becker's Hospital Review
  • Release Date: February 15, 2012

As hospitals and health systems across the country work toward coordinated and integrated care, most will need to alter their relationships with physicians. How a health system aligns its priorities with physicians is critical. That's because physicians have such an impact on cost and quality of care — both of which are the key goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

"Across the country, there are very few healthcare markets where the relationships between physicians and hospitals aren't in some type of change process," says Quint Studer, founder of Studer Group. "Closer clinical integration is achieved by a number of different models, including employment. What we're finding, however, is no matter what strategy you pick, the real challenge is the execution of the strategy — not only in the first year but the years thereafter."

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