The healthcare environment post-Affordable Care Act is changing the way that physicians practice and the way that they are compensated for patient care services. With the change from fee-based to value-based reimbursement comes significant stress related to needed change in processes and procedures, as well as the potential for a reemergence of some “traditional risk” categories. Physicians need to be vigilant and refocus efforts in some of these traditional risk areas.
Posted with permission by The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Volume 29 Number 3, pages 167-171, Copyright 2013, Greenbranch Publishing.