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Basics of Value-based Care

Value-based care and payment represents a movement toward adequately supporting, rewarding, and growing success in primary care. Understand how and why to get started, what your options are and fundamental concepts related to value-based care and payment.

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Learn how to enhance patient care, streamline processes, and improve overall practice efficiency as you successfully transition into a value-based care practice model. 


Getting Started

There are many ways to deliver value-based care. Learn about pathways for lowering health care costs while improving care, whether that means optimizing fee-for-service payments or implementing strategies to improve risk stratification.

9 Reasons to try value-based care

Learn why your peers who are successful in value-based care love it.

Easing into value-based care: 3 steps

Build on FFS and the work you're already doing to start seeing the benefits of VBC.

How to Succeed in Value-based Care

As care costs spiral, learn how to make the most of value-based care programs.

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Medicare Annual Wellness Visits

Identify care gaps, increase revenue, and prepare your practice for VBC. 

Risk Algorithm and Rubric

Access tools that make risk-stratified care effective.

Risk Adjustment in Team-based Care

Guide your team in appropriate coding and data use.

Hierarhical Conditional Category Coding

Learn about a risk-adjustment model that plays a big role in payments.

Navigating the Transition: Independent Practices

Choose the best path forward in value-based payment for your practice.


Payment Approaches

Learn about payment options that make it sustainable to focus on the right outcomes for your patients. Value-based payment can look like joining an accountable care organization, applying for an innovative payment model or using care management codes. Gain the understanding you need to choose optimal payment for your practice.

Care Management Toolkits

Integrate Medicare's TCM and CCM programs.

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ACOs

Learn what ACOs are and how to choose one.

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Physician Payment and Risk Basics

Before accepting risk contracts, get a broader understanding and education of risks, rewards, and costs.

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Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

See the latest value-based payment models being offered to family physicians by CMMI. 


Advocacy

The AAFP advocates for payment models that prioritize the services family physicians provide every day to increase value and care for patients.