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New Models of Healthcare Delivery

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The United States is in the midst of a bold experiment. The transformation of the healthcare system has stimulated numerous alternative payment models and many new models of care. There is an array of new healthcare delivery models with varying scope and magnitude of risk for providers. Quality metrics are the outcome measures by which these new models are evaluated.

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Powers, J.S. (2018). New Models of Healthcare Delivery. In: Value Driven Healthcare and Geriatric Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77057-4_5

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