Abstract
Over the last 5 years, there has been a growing trend toward consolidation in the health care field. As reimbursement moves from a fee-for-service model to a value-based model, there will be continued pressure on physicians to either be a hospital employee or to be in a large multidisciplinary practice. This is largely due to the Accountable Care Act, which directs payers to utilize population-based cost analyses, rather than an individual patient-based analysis. To succeed in this environment, practices will have to break down traditional organizational barriers to create evidence-based algorithms for the treatment of individual diagnoses from the initial onset of symptoms until the resolution of symptoms.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 379-381 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Accountable Care Act
- Business of medicine
- Fee-for-service
- Value-based reimbursement
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Surgery
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine