Will Trending of Urgent Care Utilization as Primary Care Overthrow the Objectives of Value based care? With an increase in public demand, longer hour availability and walk-in appointments, the cost and time effective convenience of urgent care clinics is experiencing a rise in utilization. According to a 2017 Merritt Hawkins survey on physician appointment times,...Read More

The Cost of Value-Based Healthcare Two primary objectives of Value-Based Care (VBC) are quality improvement and cost reduction. Quality improvement by way of standardized quality measurement is now a customary and integral function of most VBC programs. Alternatively, cost reduction has not, in most cases, experienced such a deliberate effect as that of its counterpart....Read More