The Payvider Market Map

The merger of health plan and service delivery functions in the field—the payvider phenomenon—continues. Just this week, Optum acquired Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, a large, multi-specialty provider organization with 30 locations in Houston. Kelsey-Seybold has a wide range of specialty care and operates an accountable care organization (see Optum To Acquire Kelsey-Seybold Clinic). As I wrote about this earlier in the week—spurred by other developments at United Healthcare's Optum—Payvider Evolution – The Strategic Implications—the increasing changes in ownership complicate the market mapping for provider organization executive teams. Every team needs to know the . . .