HealthLeaders Media October 14, 2015
Christopher Cheney

The ongoing shift from a volume-based business model to payment for services based on value has prompted a back-to-the-future scramble in the healthcare industry.

A generation ago, healthcare providers were called upon to assume more risk in the delivery of their services, including the first ill-fated formation of health maintenance organizations across the country. Most providers eventually backed away from both the financial burdens of bearing risk as well as a consumer backlash to managed care, retreating to their familiar fee-for-service payment model. But a select few, such as Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, have remained at risk in delivery of services to this day.

“We have a long history with full-premium payments—full, at-risk healthcare,” says Greg Poulsen, senior vice...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Congress / White House, Health System / Hospital, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Regulations, Value Based
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