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Will Walgreens, Walmart Value-based Care Plays Pay Off?
Walgreens last week entered into a strategic partnership with Pearl Health, a technology platform for primary care physicians in value-based care arrangements. Just days earlier, Bloomberg reported that Walmart was exploring the purchase of a majority stake in ChenMed, a value-based care organization of more than 125 primary care clinics in 15 states focused on treating older adults. The respective moves have some analysts questioning just how much the retailers could gain from these initiatives given that the companies have had difficulty to date showing positive financial returns for their hefty health care investments.
How to Achieve Digital Health Success
In today’s difficult financial environment amidst rising labor costs and staffing shortages, many health care organizations are prioritizing technology investments to improve operations.
Optum Looks to Expand Value-Based Care Offerings through Integrated Approach
Optum states that it expects to treat 4 million people in accountable care models this year, a whopping increase from the 1.8 million patients it treated in these programs in 2022.
4 Ways Hospitals Can Reshape Their Future
The recently released AHA 2023 Environmental Scan provides a data and analysis snapshot of where the health care field has been and where it’s headed to help executives plot their path forward.
Banner | Aetna Aligns Incentives to Drive Innovation
Banner Health and Aetna formed a provider-partnered value-based care health plan in 2016 to drive innovation, improve outcomes, reduce costs and enhance patient experience. Results from the partnership show improvement in all areas of the value equation.
Hospitals Make Progress on Value-Based Payment Models
The 2020 Industry Pulse Report from Change Healthcare, a technology company that provides data and analytics solutions to improve clinical and financial outcomes, found payers were far more likely than providers to have migrated to value-based care strategies. The survey drew from a sample of 445 respondents — health care payers, providers and third-party vendor organizations — but illustrates some key issues about work remaining on these important issues.
New AHA Report: Building Value for the Future Through Integration
A new AHA report highlights some of the significant changes and future challenges that impact hospitals and health systems.
Provider and Payer Joint Venture to Advance Value-Based Care
Providers and insurers have been working together for years to align incentives on payment and quality, but Delaware-based ChristianaCare and Highmark Health Options are taking their relationship a step further. They’ve established a 10-year deal to create a new for-profit joint venture company aimed at reducing costs and advancing value-based care.
Humana CMO Evaluates Prospects for Improved Payer-Provider Alignment
Confidence in value-based arrangements has grown during the pandemic, notes William Shrank, M.D., chief medical officer at Humana.
Market Expands for Teaching Value-Based Care Imperatives
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare recently spun off a new company, Castell, to help providers and payers accelerate their transition to value-based care. The nonprofit company will share best practices from Intermountain’s prevention-focused Reimagined Primary Care delivery model and offer a technology and analytics platform to guide care.