“Work smarter, not harder.” This age-old philosophy is the mantra behind value-based health care. After all, more health care doesn’t necessarily mean better outcomes – this much has been proven by evidence-based medicine time and again. As the fee-for-service model of health care slowly fades away, true value-based care (and all the benefits that come with it) is finally becoming a reality. Better coordination of patient care, communicating with patients, decreasing unnecessary and/or duplicate services – and incentivizing those who truly improve care (and not just those who deliver more) is happening across the country as health systems and providers shift models of care while desperately trying to preserve their reimbursement.

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