Open AccessValue-Based Payment Reforms in Cardiovascular Care: Progress to Date and Next Steps
Author(s) -
Devraj Sukul,
Kim A. Eagle
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
methodist debakey cardiovascular journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.552
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1947-6094
pISSN - 1947-6108
DOI - 10.14797/mdcj-16-3-232
Subject(s) - payment , medicine , value (mathematics) , health care , quality (philosophy) , actuarial science , value based purchasing , health care reform , public economics , health policy , finance , nursing , business , economic growth , public health , economics , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , computer science
In an effort to curb excessive health care spending and incentivize high-quality care, many payers have implemented value-based payment reforms designed to pay for the quality rather than the quantity of health care services. Medicare, the largest payer in the United States, has implemented numerous value-based payment policies over the past decade, many of which affect cardiovascular care. In this review, we discuss some of these major nationwide value-based payment reforms as they relate to cardiovascular care and what we may expect in the future from cardiovascular value-based policies.