As service provider organizations plan for a market future dominated by “pay-for-value” instead of the traditional “pay-for-volume” ethic, and the huge financial and infrastructure issue that this is sure to create, there is a simple, yet profound question that needs asking – where are the payers at with their development of value-based contracting?

Last year at the 2014 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute (see The Payer Perspective On Future Models For Provider Collaboration: Performance Measurement, P4P, Gain-Sharing, & Risk-Based Contracting), we heard answers to this question from Deborah Adler, Senior Vice President, Behavioral Network . . .