Hospitals sticking with population health despite ACA uncertainty

Healthcare DIVE August 2, 2017
Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

• Eight in 10 hospitals say they are continuing to pursue a population health management (PHM) strategy despite uncertainty over the future of the Affordable Care Act, a new Health Catalyst survey shows.
• Nearly 70% of respondents said PHM is “very important” to their healthcare delivery strategy for the next two years, while less than 3% rated it of no importance.
• Despite support for PHM, few organizations have taken on risk-based contracts that penalize them if they fail to meet goals such as improving their patient population’s health.

Dive Insight:

When asked how soon they expect to have more than 30% of their patients covered by risk-based contracts, just 13% of respondents said they have achieved that...

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