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RECORDED WEBINAR: A Readmission Breakthrough: How Structured Insights Improve Transitions of Care and Close the Discharge Gap

 Download Slides Reducing hospital readmissions remains a central goal of value‑based care, yet many effective solutions are difficult to scale due to cost or operational burden. ilumed and Connective Health have pioneered a different approach that reduced hospital readmissions in Q4 2025 from 16% to 11% (27.5% reduction). By rethinking post‑discharge workflows, this program…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Value-Based Surgical Care: How Predictive-Prevention Platforms Lower Readmissions, Improve Outcomes, and Increase Margins

 Download Slides Surgical care is one of the most significant drivers of cost, outcomes, and financial performance in value-based healthcare. Yet many surgical complications, readmissions, and same-day cancellations are not random—they are predictable and preventable. In this webinar, we’ll explore how predictive-prevention platforms are transforming perioperative care by enabling hospitals to identify high-risk patients…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Utilizing AI Employees to Free-Up Bandwidth for Practices

 Download Slides In this webinar, we discuss real examples of AI agents working across EHRs offloading routine admin work like risk adjustment and quality while surfacing only what clinicians need to see. Discover how leading groups are building AI-native operations that scale without added staffing or burnout. Speakers: Mark Pothen – CEO & Co-Founder of…

Can Price Controls Be Reconciled With Value-Based Care?

As the healthcare affordability crisis escalates, efforts to fix the U.S. health system seem to have hit a wall. Some policy experts are calling for government price controls, while other experts and healthcare leaders still support value-based care (VBC), despite its limited impact on national health spending. Can these two schools of thought be reconciled…

What To Know About CMS’ 10-Year Bet on Accountable Care with LEAD

On March 31st, 2026, CMS released details on a new model called LEAD — the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design. It’s positioned as a replacement for ACO REACH. However, LEAD is not just an evolution of ACO REACH. It’s a fundamentally different proposition: a ten-year model with a fixed benchmark that never rebases, an integrated approach to…

An effective value-based care model shouldn’t cost $75,000 extra per year, says Marta J. Van Beek, M.D., M.P.H.

Dermatology is moving toward outcome-based measurement, but the systems to capture patient outcomes (especially through EHRs or mobile tools) are still difficult and costly to implement, according to Marta J. Van Beek, M.D., M.P.H., a dermatologic surgeon at University of Iowa Health Care and a clinical professor at the university’s Carver College of Medicine. She…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Setting the Record Straight: Unmasking TEAM Target Prices

 Download Slides If you’re a TEAM participant, you know the responsibility that comes with it: managing the cost of care and driving care delivery innovation across 30-day episodes for five surgical procedures. Yet many hospitals are struggling with one of the most complex — and often misunderstood — components of the model: target price…

Why Alternative Payment Models Need Patient-Reported Trajectory Measures

In December 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design (LEAD) Model. Set to run from 2027 to 2036, the longest time horizon that CMS has tested to date, LEAD introduces several features to encourage coherent trajectories of care, including population-based payments, more predictable benchmarking, and episode-based risk arrangements to…

Hospital global budget models: 6 essential implementation conditions for providers | Milliman MedInsight

Provider health systems and hospitals are under growing pressure to assume greater financial accountability for the total cost of care. Federal and state payers and some commercial health plans are accelerating the move from fee-for-service (FFS) payments to value-based care (VBC) models, including high-risk hospital global budget models. Hospital global budget methodologies establish fixed annual…

How should health plans change as value-based care evolves?

As value-based care continues to reshape the health insurance landscape, health plans face mounting pressure to evolve by continuing to become a true partner in care delivery. The shift demands more than operational adjustment — it requires a fundamental rethinking of how plans engage with providers, share data and measure success. To understand how health…

Dementia Care as Strategic Infrastructure: Why ACOs Must Elevate It Now

By Archana Gupta   Dementia Is No Longer Peripheral to Value-Based Strategy Within most ACO populations, dementia quietly represents one of the most operationally complex and financially consequential cohorts. It is rarely the largest by diagnosis count, yet it disproportionately influences total cost of care, emergency department utilization, inpatient admissions, post-acute transitions, and long-term institutional…

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