As value-based care becomes the end goal for many healthcare organizations, health systems across the country are acquiring primary care practices to achieve this mission. Critical aspects of these acquisitions include ensuring that clinician-patient relationships are uninterrupted and establishing operations that generate value for consumers, according to Matthew Weiss, MD, managing director of the EY-Parthenon practice of Ernst & Young, and Mallory Caldwell, a partner with the firm who leads EY America’s healthcare practice. Primary care in itself is an essential part of value-based care.
“(Healthcare organizations) are buying primary care to get ready for a world where value-based care is the game of the day,” Caldwell told RevCycleIntelligence. Read more.
