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It was recently calculated the United States spends $3.8 trillion — or 18 percent of the national economy — on healthcare. The current healthcare landscape indicates this spending rate will not slow anytime soon due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing healthcare crisis. Value-based care models like Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) have formed to address the alarming growth in healthcare spending and simultaneously improve the quality and coordination of care in the U.S. Let’s take a look at these models and their ability to secure value-based contracts for better disease and population health management.