The Overlooked Frontier Of Value-Based Care: Managing The Rarest, Sickest, And Most Expensive Patients

For two decades, value-based care has been built upon a simple premise: if we better manage the sickest patients, total costs of care will fall. This idea catalyzed countless disease-management programs, care-coordination models, and technology innovations. And yet, as the field has matured, an inconvenient reality has emerged. Much of value-based care isn’t truly aimed at the sickest patients.