Direct employer-provider contracting imposes downward pricing pressure and upward quality pressure to the health care market, eliminates administrative complexity, and alleviates provider burnout, ...

Over the last decade, it has become increasingly common for self-insured plans to negotiate direct arrangements with healthcare providers—typically, large hospital systems or provider networks—under ...

Providers say they dodged a bullet when the Biden administration decided to redesign the Direct Contracting Model instead of eliminating it entirely as progressive lawmakers and groups demanded.

On June 7, 2023, the Connecticut Legislature passed HB6669, “An Act Protecting Patients and Prohibiting Unnecessary Health Care Costs” (“the Act”), which includes a prohibition on certain contractual ...