Adapting to the Reimbursement Landscape: The Future of Value-Based Care

This article explores one of the undeniable driving forces in health care: payment, and the shift toward value-based reimbursement as a lever to better align provider incentives toward appropriate utilization of health care services. The increasing burden of heart failure has made it an attractive target for many payment reform efforts and alternative payment models. As the ultimate goal of "value-based care" interventions is to reduce costs and improve quality outcomes and experience for patients while simultaneously improving the caregiver experience, financial models require a level of clinical translation to yield sustainable care redesign improvements.