Centering The Patient in Value-Based Care Benefits

Forty years ago, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, HIV researchers and physicians discovered that simply treating the symptoms of the disease was not enough to provide lasting improvement for patients. Other factors like unstable living conditions, drug use, the public stigma over AIDS and HIV – known today as social determinants of health – all require attention in addition to a traditional treatment plan. This holistic view of the patient and caring for their symptoms, treatments, and the environment around them is what we know today as Value-Based Care (VBC). 

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