Becker's Healthcare August 26, 2025
Care New England Health System in Providence, R.I., has participated in value-based contracting for years with some success. But over the last 12 to 18 months, the health system has reframed how they think about “value” to serve the community better.
“The Rhode Island landscape for value-based contracting has been financially challenging, and those pressures have forced us to ask harder questions: not just how to perform under contracts, but how to create care experiences that genuinely deliver on the promise of the quadruple aim,” said Michael Wagner, MD, president and CEO, and Todd Conklin, executive vice president and CFO of the system. “As both a physician and system leader, I’ve seen first hand the barriers patients face–fragmented transitions, friction...







