Managing the Critical Transition from Volume to Value (Patient Care‪)‬

Health care executives, government leaders, policy experts, and politicians agree that significant changes to our health care system are urgently needed to curtail the growing financial burden of health care costs to individuals, employers, and our society. This concern is especially critical in light of the aging Baby Boomer population and the historical growth of health care costs in excess of inflation. (1) Economic experts have pointed out that an essential element of reform is removing the incentives that reward greater volume of health care services under the current fee-for-service payment model. (2)