40% Of Commercial Health Insurance Reimbursements Linked To Performance In 2014

Across the health and human services field, organizations are prepping themselves (or should be prepping themselves) for contracts that include performance incentives. This includes pay-for-performance arrangements, gainsharing, risk-based contracts, case rates, episode-based payments, bundled payments, and social-impact bonds, to name a few. A scan of the market finds that 2014 was a big year for performance incentive adoption at commercial health plans – 40% of commercial health plan reimbursements to in-network provider organizations in 2014 were linked to value-oriented initiatives intended to improve the quality of services or to cut waste. When compared to . . .