Managed Healthcare Executive June 29, 2021
Jeff Levin-Scherz, M.D., MBA, Jane Jensen, FSA, MAAA

Direct contracting between employers and providers is rare but could have some genuine advantages for both parties — and for patients. But providers need to prepare and plan if they are going to get into direct contracting.

Healthcare has changed dramatically in recent years, but one thing remains constant. U.S. employers are frustrated with high costs, poor patient experience and mediocre clinical quality. Additionally, health care providers fret that insurance companies introduce hassles and complexity and bear partial responsibility for the high administrative cost of our health care financing system.

With neither employers nor providers willing to abide by the status quo, the time is right totake a new look at direct contracting and the steps that provider organizations can...

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