15 Years After the Affordable Care Act: What's Worked and Not Worked in Value-Based Care (65H)

In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a comprehensive healthcare reform law was enacted with two primary goals: Improve access to healthcare by making health insurance more affordable and accessible, including the expansion of Medicaid, and fund CMS to support innovative healthcare delivery programs to improve quality and lower costs.

While this landmark legislation had its supporters and detractors, most would agree that it accelerated CMS's and other payer efforts to offer value-based care programs and arrangements. This session will focus on these innovative value-based care programs, identify these initiatives, discuss what's worked or not worked to date, present some case studies, and offer some potential options for success in value-based care in the future.

Attendees new to value-based care, as well as experienced healthcare professionals, may appreciate this session that will address how value-based care is defined, and its key attributes; the most significant value-based care programs that have impacted and/or attempted to impact the healthcare delivery system to date; some of the success stories in value-based care; and how to make value-based care more meaningful and successful in the future.

Parts of this session will be based on the experience of the lecturers at the Delaware Valley ACO, as well as the ACHE-published book, Caring for Our Communities: A Blueprint for Better Outcomes in Population Health.