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  Complimentary from the publishers of VBP News                                   October 2018  
       
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  "This [value-based] type of contract really changes the paradigm around how we pay for medicine. Rather focusing solely on price negotiations, we are now paying for results."
- Chronis Manolis RPh, Chief Pharmacy Officer at UPMC Health Plan.

 
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  "54.6% of corporate physicians indicate they are paid on value; 41.2% of practice owners are."

Excerpted from: VBP News, Volume 3 Issue 20, October Second Edition 2018, "Foundation Survey Finds Little Physician Faith in Future of Value-Based Payment."
 
 
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HFMA: 7 Considerations in the Financial Modeling of VBP Arrangements

1. The Type of Value-Based Arrangement
2. The Payer Offering the Arrangement
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Notes: From an article by Jim Ryan, MBA and Charles Brown, MBA

Source: HFM Magazine/Healthcare Financial Management Association, October 2018
     
 
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