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Value-Based Emergency Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2016

Zachary Corrigan ,
Walter Winslow ,
Charlie Miramonti  and
Tim Stephens
Zachary Corrigan
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Associates, Alexandria, Virginia
Walter Winslow*
Affiliation:
MESH Coalition, Indianapolis, Indiana
Charlie Miramonti
Affiliation:
Indianapolis Emergency Medicine Services, Indianapolis, Indiana
Tim Stephens
Affiliation:
MESH Coalition, Indianapolis, Indiana
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Tim Stephens, Divergent Group, 1841 Columbia Road, Suite 714, Washington, DC 20009 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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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. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:158–160)

Keywords

health policyquality of health caredecision makingorganizationalhealth care economics and organizationshealth care coalitions
Type
Policy Analysis
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 158 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2016 

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