title: Value-Based Emergency Management.
abstract: This article touches on the complex and decentralized network that is the US health care system and how important it is to include emergency management in this network. By aligning the overarching incentives of opposing health care organizations, emergency management can become resilient to up-and-coming changes in reimbursement, staffing, and network ownership. Coalitions must grasp the opportunity created by changes in value-based purchasing and impending Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services emergency management rules to engage payers, physicians, and executives. Hope and faith in doing good is no longer enough for preparedness and health care coalitions; understanding how physicians are employed and health care is delivered and paid for is now necessary. Incentivizing preparedness through value-based compensation systems will become the new standard for emergency management.
authors.affiliation: 1Emergency Medicine Associates,Alexandria,Virginia.
authors.forename: Zachary
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.affiliation: 3MESH Coalition,Indianapolis,Indiana.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Winslow
authors.affiliation: 2Indianapolis Emergency Medicine Services,Indianapolis,Indiana.
authors.forename: Charlie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Miramonti
authors.affiliation: 3MESH Coalition,Indianapolis,Indiana.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stephens
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004467:Economics; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid / Q000639:trends; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States; D062505:Value-Based Purchasing / Q000639:trends*
keywords: decision making; health care coalitions; health care economics and organizations; health policy; organizational; quality of health care