Strategies to Overcome the Market Dominance of Hospitals —Reply

In Reply We agree that differences in fee-for-service reimbursements have incentivized hospitals to grow lucrative service lines that cross-subsidize less lucrative services, such as general medicine, geriatrics, pediatrics, and behavioral health. This trend has become especially apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, as we have previously discussed. We also agree with Dr Kornitzer ’s suggestion that value-based reimbursement models, if appropriately risk adjusted, may help encourage hospitals to compete on the basis of cost-effectiveness and quality of care rather than on the volume or relative value units of services provided.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research