Whole-person care has become a “practical necessity,” yet payment models reflect an era “built around episodic visits, fragmented services and narrow measures of success,” Padmaja Patel, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, CPE, said.
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A hybrid payment model is a steppingstone toward capitation, a system in which providers are paid a fixed amount per patient for a set period of time. Ann Greiner, MCP, president and CEO of the Primary Care Collaborative, said that hybrid and capitation models offer practices upfront money, so they can invest in the technology and data they need, which moves incentives away from volume of patients to better outcomes.
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