Medicaid Population-Based Payment: The Current Landscape, Early Insights, and Considerations for Policymakers
CHCS November 16, 2022
Population-based payment (PBP) models — an advanced value-based payment approach — are gaining increased interest in health care as a way to achieve often hard-to-reach goals, such as controlling health care costs, improving care quality, enhancing patient and provider experience, and advancing health equity. These models align provider and payer incentives by encouraging providers to keep their patients well, rather than rewarding them for a large volume of reimbursable services. The strong financial incentives in PBP models represent a significant opportunity to transform how health care is delivered in Medicaid.
This report,...