Moving away from fee for service medicine

For over two decades the FEHBlog has been reading about the need to move health insurance from fee for service to quality based payments.  Modern Healthcare today has a helpful article about the progress being made on this front by insurers, employers, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Although progress is being made, making this change is easier said than done because providers understandably don’t have a lot of appetite for taking on risk.