“The schizophrenia we all face is around our payment models that in many respects are not in sync,” Terry Akin, CEO of Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health, said at the North Carolina Hospital Association’s healthcare panel at Wake Forest Biotech Place in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to the report.
Mr. Akin noted Cone Health’s progress transitioning to value-based care, but added most hospitals and physicians are largely still in fee-for-service payment models. Stephen Motew, MD, a vascular surgeon and vice president of Novant Health’s Winston-Salem Market, agreed with Mr. Akin’s remarks.
“It’s a terrible challenge we face having to play in both fields,” Dr. Stephen Motew said on the panel, according to the report. “Everyone up here — we’re all ready. We’re waiting for everyone else to be ready.”
To better prepare future physicians to provide high-quality care under a risk-based environment, medical schools are beginning to tailor training toward new models that focus on a team approach to care, as well as population health management. Physicians have not been trained in a team-based environment in the past, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center CEO John McConnell, MD, noted. Wake Forest School of Medicine is redesigning its curriculum to include these changes
