In an article in Home Health Care News, Andrew Donlan, reporter, shared, “Home-based care providers hungry for value-based care arrangements have recently been disillusioned by the process of trying to find those arrangements. While they’ve been told value-based care is the way to go, they often end up finding that health systems and payers aren’t as willing to meet them in the middle.”
Lifespark COO, Matt Kinne, has noticed the same pattern with certain health systems. While his company has gone all in on risk- and value-based care, many of those health systems seem to be falling back on the fee-for-service operating model.
“I’m losing faith, because I just got done having breakfast and lunch with my friends in the health systems who were saying, ‘We’ve taken [population] health out of our nomenclature, and we’re doubling down on fee for service,” Kinne said at the CONTINUUM conference.
Value-based care is hard, and it is also risky. It’s meant to be that way.
