Population Health Demands A Shift From Coaxing To More Teeth

Forbes August 27, 2021
Rita Numerof

This time last year I wrote that my firm’s Fifth Annual State of Population Health Survey Report “could very well be the last report reflecting miniscule progress toward population health.”

It’s easy to see why one might have thought that. After all, when revenues were sharply curtailed due to the stoppage of all non-emergent procedures in the face of the pandemic, only those organizations with predictable revenue streams reflecting capitated, per member per month models fared well.

Nevertheless, according to new data, healthcare executives still don’t see fee-for-service as the dying model that it is. Only 12% of respondents to this year’s Sixth Annual State of Population Health Survey Report said the notion that the “current fee-for-service model won’t last...

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