Policy and Payment Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Treatment of Heart Failure: Value-Based Care and Telehealth.

Increasing patient and therapeutic complexity have created both challenges and opportunities for heart failure care. Within this background, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted care as usual, accelerating the need for transition from volume-based to value-based care and demanding a rapid expansion of telehealth and remote care for heart failure. Patients, clinicians, health systems, and payors have by necessity become more invested in these issues. Herein we review recent changes in healthcare policy related to the movement from volume to value-based payment and from in-person to remote care delivery.