Panel: Payment Models Need More Incentives, Fewer Burdens – AAFP

Read article - Quotes Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who recently participated in a panel discussion at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., that addressed value-based payment models. "I think we are missing the whole emphasis on cost," said Fisher. "We need to have much better information using patient-reported outcome measures about how patients are before they get surgery."