A recent article in Orthopedics Today entitled, Orthopedists Uniquely Positioned to Guide Value-Based Care, featured Duke Orthopaedic Surgery faculty members Christian Pean, MD, and Thorsten Seyler, MD, PhD, FAAOS.
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has sought to move away from fee-for-service payment models in favor of value-based payment models, emphasizing incentivizing value delivered to payments. Pean shared, “We have to push policymakers to incentivize population models that champion equity, that account for some of these social factors in care, and we need a more granular index for quantifying these factors.”
Seyler offered, “You have your orthopaedic practice, then you have your isolated primary care, you have perhaps an endocrinologist, maybe a neurologist or a different cardiologist,” he told Healio | Orthopedics Today. “The challenge is communication, optimizing, and trying to align everybody. For value-based care to work, fragmented care must go away, and there must be a way to interchange information.” Read more.