Value-Based Healthcare

(3 Credits)

Value-based healthcare is a healthcare delivery model in which providers, including hospitals, physicians, and other practitioners are paid based on patient health outcomes. Under value-based care agreements, providers are rewarded for helping patients improve their health, reduce the effects and incidence of chronic disease, and live healthier lives, in an evidence-based way. The class will explore how value-based care is being used in an attempt to attenuate wide disparities in health care outcomes, high costs, and increasing levels of provider burnout. There will be a focus on Medicaid, duals, and vulnerable populations, and the use of care management, integrated behavioral health and programs that address social service needs to provide better "value" for those populations.