Value-Based Payment for Clinicians Treating Cardiovascular Disease: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association

Programs should carefully weigh the incentives between lowering cost and improving quality of care and ensure adequate focus on quality of care.

Expansion of value-based payment should be a tool for improving equity, which should be a focal point of program design and evaluation.

Value-based payment should continue to move away from fee for service toward more flexible funding that allows clinicians to focus resources on the interventions that best help patients.

Successful programs should find ways to channel clinicians' intrinsic motivation to improve their performance and the care for their patients.