Healthcare IT News July 27, 2015
The shift to value-based health care models is gaining speed, and providers can prepare for the transition by assessing their own readiness and unique needs. The Department of Health and Human Services set a goal to have 50 percent of traditional Medicare’s $362 billion in annual payments go to providers in value-based models by 2018.
The Health Care Transformation Task Force, which brings together patients, payers, providers and purchasers, has pledged that its members will put 75 percent of their business into these models by 20202. As a member of the task force, Aetna shares this goal.
Creating a sustainable business model in the era of value-based payments and care models depends not only on transforming, but also on growth....