This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Tommy Ibrahim knows there are significant operational investments tied to value-based care models, but he thinks there's still a chance for the program to accelerate. We are going on 20 years of the ...

There are many emerging value-based care models in healthcare that are shifting the definition of what professionals have understood it to be. Equality Health is one example of a VBC success story to ...

Change Healthcare released a white paper titled “Value-Based Reimbursement: State-by-State,” which summarizes the landscape of value-based care in each state and what to expect for the future. Here, ...

As healthcare sprints toward value and away from volume, many physicians participating in value-based care (VBC) models are in the middle of a precarious balancing act right now. Value-based contracts ...

EmpiRx Health saw a significant increase in pharmacy claims for behavioral health therapies but found managing these treatments in a value-based approach can mitigate the costs. The pharmacy benefit ...

Value-based care (VBC), driven by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has emerged as a cornerstone for redefining the customer journey—creating a profound shift in the insurance ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Kaiser Permanente caused a stir when it announced nearly two years ago that its new nonprofit subsidiary, Risant Health, was acquiring 10-hospital Geisinger Health. It marked the ...

Employers pay 80%+ of commercial (non-Medicare/Medicaid) healthcare costs, yet are often disillusioned by their experience with a conventional volume-based pharmacy benefits arrangement. Their ...