How Team-Based Care Supports the Value-Based Care Movement

Team-based care isn’t a new concept — providers have always collaborated to achieve the best outcomes for their patients. However, the lower costs and improved outcomes associated with outcome-based models are driving this teamwork to new levels of popularity.

This care model addresses social determinants of health as well, because it recognizes that many of the factors that influence health originate outside of the provider setting. A team-based approach fosters a collaborative approach to whole-person care within an outcome-based program.

Team-based care complements value-based care because it’s designed to improve health outcomes. It paves the way for an outcome-based model. Seeing this transition through will require support from a wide range of people and organizations — and employers play an important role in improving outcomes and reducing costs.