Focus On Payment Innovation

3 Strategies for Sustaining Payer Innovation Momentum Post-COVID

September 21, 2021 - The coronavirus pandemic set off a whirlwind of payer innovation, largely out of necessity. In the health insurance world specifically, payers continued to advance new products during the pandemic. Aetna started its new employer-sponsored health plan that uses CVS HealthHUBs and the payer’s I-35 Performance Network of providers....


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How Payers Can Support Population-Based Payment Model Uptake

by Kelsey Waddill

As the healthcare industry gravitates toward value-based care, population-based payment models have become the golden fleece for payers, the ultimate state of value-based care payment. Unfortunately...

4 Strategies to Advance Value-Based Care During and After a Crisis

by Kelsey Waddill

How do major disruptions affect the US healthcare system’s progress toward value-based care? A recession, a widespread natural disaster, a public health emergency—significant national events like these have the power to build...

How Medicare Advantage Is Leading Payers to Adopt Value-Based Care

by Kelsey Waddill

As America strives for positive changes to the healthcare system, it may find the greatest advancements for value-based care in Medicare Advantage plans. Over 90 percent of healthcare payers in a small Health Care Payment...