The ranks of healthcare execs and providers who see value-based payment contracts as detrimental to profits are swelling, a recent study from KPMG showed. The audit, tax and advisory firm surveyed 292 ...

Value-based care works best when physicians lead, specialists share accountability, and long-term outcomes matter.

Self-insured employers face legal challenges in adopting value-based models, including ERISA fiduciary duties, HIPAA restrictions, and antitrust concerns. Standardized data definitions and performance ...

On May 1, Valence Health will host a webinar on how healthcare providers can leverage their physician-hospital organization for value-based contracting. The webinar will be led by Aurora Branum ...

To succeed in value-based relationships, physicians need timely access to comprehensive information about attributed patients, ideally augmented by predictive and prescriptive analytics to identify ...

Value-based care was designed to deliver better outcomes, shared savings, and stronger payer-provider alignment. Yet in practice, contracts often stall under the weight of administrative complexity – ...

Shared savings programs are useful for nudging providers’ behavior toward value, but they aren’t a true payment model that can sustain a health system, according to one executive. “Shared savings ...

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare uses two types of value-based contracts, but Lee Newcomer, MD, senior vice president of oncology and genetics at the insurer, told AJMC one outperforms the ...

The goal in shifting from paying for volume to value-based care is simple: to align payers and healthcare providers around high-quality care that improves outcomes and lowers cost. Operationalizing ...

Value-based care models demonstrate success in aligning stakeholders with cost and quality goals, achieving significant savings. Employer-sponsored insurance market faces challenges due to misaligned ...

Just over three-quarters of health system and hospital C-suites say they plan to increase value-based care model participation within the next two years, up from the 57% who indicated similarly back ...