The healthcare industry is making the push toward greater adoption of value-based care, yet it’s not a secret that progress has been slow-moving.
With that backdrop, UnitedHealth Group has released its latest “A Path Forward” report, which is a biennial look at progress in the shift to value. The paper includes dozens of policy recommendations the team believes can accelerate that transformation.
Wyatt Decker, M.D., UnitedHealth Group executive vice president and chief physician who’s leading the charge at the company on value-based care and innovation, told Fierce Healthcare in an interview that the U.S. healthcare system is extremely effective at addressing crises, complex patient conditions and end-stage needs. But it’s in prevention where “we really fall down,” he said.