RevCycle Intelligence August 9, 2018
Employers are in a better position to offer providers value-based reimbursement opportunities than large payers and they want to boost their value-based contracts.
Providers wanting to expand their value-based reimbursement contracts may want to look to the employer-sponsored health plan market, according to a new report from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Employers are seeking innovative methods beyond high-deductible health plans and co-payments for controlling rising healthcare costs. Value-based reimbursement and alternative payments models are one of the three ways that employers are reducing their costs, researchers found.
The other two strategies are implementing population health management and workplace clinics and creating networks of high-value providers.
“[E]mployer-sponsored plans are well-positioned to innovate because...