Health Plan Relationship Building Skills Key To VBR Success

As executive teams of specialty provider organizations look ahead to 2019, it appears that the shift to performance-based reimbursement will continue. The most recent change has been the new CMS rules that will move accountable care organizations (ACO) to full-risk reimbursement contracts (see CMS 'Pathways To Success' Medicare ACO Overhaul Limits ACO Time Without Risk). This is going to generate new and different relationships between health plans and provider organizations, as I discussed in Health System/Insurer Combos Gain Steam-& More To Come With ACO Changes. As a result, the OPEN MINDS senior team views value-based . . .