Healthcare Innovation February 6, 2025
Leaders from a national purchasing group have teamed up with three major health plans
California continues to prove itself as a pacesetter state when it comes to innovating around value-based healthcare contracting. Last month, leaders from the purchaser, health plan, and provider worlds announced a groundbreaking value-based payment structure that involves three major health plans that are competitors in the state’s healthcare market working together with an organizing purchaser organization, to pursue integrated care delivery and care management work with physicians in group practices across the state.
The Jan. 30 press release, published by the San Francisco-based Purchaser Business Group on Health, which represents more than 40 employers nationwide, and explaining it all, began thus: “In an unprecedented collaboration, three...