What Are Health Plans Doing About VBR?

It's hard to get a snapshot of where the specialty health care market is with value-based reimbursement (VBR). Our recent surveys of provider organizations and health plans provide an interesting view. Generally, while specialty organizations that serve consumers with complex health needs lag behind acute health care in their adoption of VBR, we see use and effects of these payment models continuing to increase.

Our provider organization survey found that 69% of specialty provider organizations participate in some form of VBR arrangement (see Where Are We On The Road To Value?: The 2019 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Executive . . .