Editorial

Healthcare, business, and political leaders convened at the World Healthcare Congress in Washington, DC, in April to discuss payment, regulatory reforms, new technology, and evolving models of patient care. During the Nurse Leadership Summit portion of the conference, a session on population health management was noteworthy. Panel members discussed transitional care approaches that are improving patient outcomes and thus align with the reimbursement requirements of value-based payment (VBP). As such, they struck me as models that could be adopted in the surgical arena, too.