title: Competing in value-based health care: keys to winning the foot race.
abstract: The US health care system is transitioning to a value-based model of health care in which providers will be rewarded for delivering services that achieve excellent clinical outcomes with efficient cost utilization. The concept of "value" in health care (defined as health outcomes achieved per dollar spent) is rapidly spreading as physicians and health systems brace for the paradigm shift from "fee-for-volume" to "fee-for-value" reimbursement. What constitutes good value versus poor value in health care remains nebulous at this time. Various specialties across medicine and within orthopaedics are seeking to better demonstrate value delivered to patients, payers, and policy makers. The objective of this article is to develop a framework for defining and measuring value in foot and ankle surgery. In this new era of health care, we believe that a working knowledge of value and its determinants will be imperative for foot and ankle surgeons to unify research and quality improvement efforts so as to demonstrate the value of services rendered within the subspecialty.
  
  
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authors: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
authors: Kamran S
authors: KS
authors: Hamid
authors: Benedict U
authors: BU
authors: Nwachukwu
authors: Scott J
authors: SJ
authors: Ellis
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D015895:Relative Value Scales
keywords: arthroscopy; cost; diabetes; foot and ankle; health care; osteoarthritis; outcomes; policy; value; value-based