Building the Future of Value-Based Payment—One Contract at a Time?

Healthcare Innovation November 23, 2021
Mark Hagland

Why the just-announced Humana-Allina contract speaks to an accelerating Zeitgeist that favors Medicare Advantage as the major vehicle for value-based change right now

I read with particular interest the announcement this week that the Louisville-based Humana health plan had signed a multi-year value-based contract with the Minneapolis-based Allina integrated health system; and it struck me as yet further evidence of the Zeitgeist, l’esprit du temps, of this complicated moment in healthcare.

As we reported on Monday:

“The Louisville-based health plan Humana on Nov. 22 announced that it had signed a multi-year value-based contract to expand its engagement with the 11-hospital, 90-clinic, Minneapolis-based Allina Health integrated health system.

As a press release posted to Business Wire on Monday stated, ‘Humana Inc....

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