Navigating Around The Giants

Greetings from sunny Newport Beach, California and the last day of the 2021 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute week. Today, I attended the OPEN MINDS Health Plan Partnership Summit: An Assessment Of Payer Partnership Priorities In The “Next Normal” with its focus on the state of collaborations between health plans and provider organizations. Opening the summit, our co-chairs—OPEN MINDS Vice President Richard Louis III and OPEN MINDS Senior Associate Cathy Gilbert—provided an overview of the current health plan landscape (see Health Plan Partnership State-of-the-State). They emphasized three developments that are shaping health plan . . .