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  "Post-acute care is an area where we can improve quality and save money. From that perspective we like it. The devil's in the details on how to set up the models correctly.”
- Adam Boehler, director of The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Innovation Center.

 
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  A new survey of 185 healthcare executives by the HealthCare Executive Group and Change Healthcare says getting to a market made mostly of relationships with upside and downside risk is three to five years off, according to 40% of respondents; 17% say it will take longer and 6% say “it will never happen.”

Excerpted from: Value Based Payment News, Volume 4 Issue 8, April Second Edition 2019, "Value Figures Heavily in Exec Group, Change’s Vision of Future."
 
 
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Change Healthcare Survey: 5 ways health plans can promote high-value care

1. Working with providers to develop risk-management programs (22.6% of respondents).
2. Sharing performance data (13.9%).
3. Co-developing bundled payments around episodes of care (13).
4. Developing application programming interfaces to improve interoperability (10.6%)
5. Sharing outcomes data (7.7%).

Note: article based on Change Healthcare's "9th Annual Industry Pulse Survey" report
Source: HFMA, "Value-Based Contracting Not Taking Off: Health Plan Survey," March 19, 2019
     
 
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