Relentless Health Value

John Rodis, MD, MBA, is an OB/GYN specializing in high-risk pregnancies. He’s been a board examiner and a department chairman. He’s been a COO and a CEO of a 600-bed Level 1 trauma center. He’s also an author working on a book to help consumers make better choices. Dr. Rodis has said he feels an inflection point is coming in the transition to value. First, we have the pressure of large employers. Second, we’ve got doctors themselves who are being crushed by the current environment and who may also have realized that FFS (fee for service) is kinda risky in the middle of a pandemic. The third force toward the inflection point is the new breed of fee-only transparent brokers. And then fourth, we’ve got the government, particularly state governments who are struggling fiscally coming out of this pandemic and also realizing that the current health care system is pretty rigged to profit on the backs of taxpayers and firefighters and teachers. In the face of this transition, health systems who aren’t keeping up with