As health care reform advocates look for ways to reduce U.S. health care spending, they cite fee for service (FFS), the predominant payment model in the U.S. health care system, as being a key contributor to spending growth and geographic variation unrelated to quality of care. Learn more about the rationale, implementation and impacts of episode-based reimbursement
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Value-Based Purchasing
Center for Health Solutions
Value-based purchasing (VBP) and pay for performance (P4P) programs aim to improve the management of patient outcomes by providing incentives for providers to deliver high-quality services. The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions' research efforts in this area are aimed at changing the incentives in the system from volume and consumption to outcomes and performance.
