Inside North Carolina’s Big Effort to Transform Health Care

By artappraiser on Mon, 08/26/2019 - 2:51pm |

The state and its top insurer are pushing to pay health care providers based on whether they keep people healthy, not for each service they provide.

By Steve Lohr from Raleigh, NC @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 26

Photo captions:

North Carolina is offering payment incentives for doctors like Robert Rosen and Amy Sapp, at Admore Family Practice in Winston-Salem, to play a larger role in managing care.
“I want to buy health with our dollars, not necessarily buy health care,” said Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Patrick Conway, chief executive of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, shares similar views of the health industry with Dr. Cohen.

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/business/north-carolina-health-care-outcomes.html