The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us it’s possible for the health care system to transform care delivery—and quickly. We saw vaccines come to market in record time, heightened cross-industry collaboration to track vaccine statuses, and virtual care use surge. Similarly, the pandemic demonstrated that value-based care delivery models, where payment is based on outcomes versus the…
Acquiring knowledge through advanced analytics on value-based care is a critical success factor in today’s healthcare market. Value-based care aligns diverse interests, including payers, providers, self-funded employers, third-party administrators, brokers, consultants, and patients—value-based care empowers them to deliver, manage, and drive higher patient outcomes while meaningfully managing and decreasing healthcare costs. A recent study of…
The goal of the value movement is to incentivize providers to move away from the traditional fee-for-service model and provide coordinated care for patients with an eye toward improving quality and reducing cost. One key mechanism to achieve this goal is accountable care organization (ACO) models that—because they are offered along a continuum of varying…
Payers that implemented value-based payment models reduced healthcare costs by an average of 5.6 percent, improved provider collaboration, and created more impactful member engagement, according to a new study from Change Healthcare. The Finding the Value: The State of Value-Based Care in 2018 report, presented at the 2018 AHIP Expo, found that payers are effectively…
Value-based care models are the future of pharmaceuticals but several obstacles exist slowing the transition from volume selling to value selling. More and more, companies in this space are realizing that a traditional “pharma-first” approach is no longer enough to be successful in the future. Instead, they must evolve to adopt a more patient-centric approach designed…