Limited Evidence Shows Value-Based Purchasing Improves Outcomes & Lowers Health Care Costs

Although value-based approaches are new to health care, the limited evidence that is available has shown that the approach is improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs. Much of the evidence, up to this point, is contingent on assumptions about market environments and specific strategies. A measurement paradigm for cost and quality that reaches across the care continuum does not yet exist. These were the findings of a report, titled “Value-Based Purchasing: The Evidence,” by Gloria N. Eldridge, Ph.D., MSc; and Holly Korda, Ph.D., MA. They analyzed peer-reviewed and field-based research associated with . . .