What Value-Based Care Means for Integrative and Whole Person Medicine
What Value-Based Care Means for Integrative and Whole Person Medicine The U.S. health care system is in the middle of a long and complicated shift. For decades, doctors, hospitals, clinics, and health systems have largely operated under a fee-for-service model. In that model, providers are generally paid each time they deliver a service, such as an office visit, lab test, imaging scan, procedure, or hospital stay. That structure helped build much of modern American health care. It created a clear way to reimburse providers, supported access to specialized services, and allowed health systems to be paid for the [...]
