Value-Based Payment and Vanishing Small Independent Practices

JAMA. 2024 Sep 17;332(11):871-872. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.12900.
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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint explores the shift from fee-for-service to value-based payment models and the resulting trend of physician employment moving away from independent practices toward corporate health institutions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Private Practice* / economics
  • Private Practice* / statistics & numerical data
  • Private Practice* / trends
  • United States
  • Value-Based Purchasing*