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Beyond Fee-for-Service: New Payment Models After decades of paying providers for quantity rather than quality, American healthcare is slowly shifting toward “value-based care”—payment models that reward health outcomes over service volume. Value equals outcomes that matter to patients divided by total cost of care (risk-adjusted). In 2023, Medicare ACOs in the Shared Savings Program generated…
Editor’s Note: This article is Part 5 of 8 in our series, “The Vaccine Paradox”. This series explores the stunning success of vaccination and the parallel rise of a skepticism that threatens to undo one of the greatest public health achievements in human history. Read Part 1: From Cowpox to COVID, Part 2: The Science…
Editor’s Note: This article is Part 1 of 8 in our series, “The Vaccine Paradox”. This series explores the stunning success of vaccination and the parallel rise of a skepticism that threatens to undo one of the greatest public health achievements in human history. From Cowpox to COVID: The Remarkable History of Vaccines I. Introduction:…