Paul Levy: Value-based payment is an ‘energy-sapping distraction’

(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review)

ACOs will fail because the rewards are not immediate, substantial or transparent enough to incent behavioral change among physicians, and ultimately will not solve healthcare’s biggest problem, according to Paul Levy, former CEO of Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Continue reading article here…

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