White Paper AMGA Advocacy Taking Risk, 4.0: Clearing a Pathway to Value-Based Care AMGA’s Fourth Annual Risk Survey
AMGA May 21, 2019
For the fourth consecutive year, AMGA conducted a survey of its membership to gauge their progress in the transition to value, what barriers to risk or value are hindering them, and what percentage of member revenues are risk-based.
Findings from the 2018 risk survey indicate that AMGA member revenues increasingly are risk-based, and AMGA members are continuing the journey to value. Moreover, AMGA members report clear preferences for some risk-based payment models over others.
However, survey data show that there continue to be significant impediments to taking risk that slow the progress to moving to an actual value-based healthcare system. Limited to access to claims data, duplicative quality measure programs, and complicated regulatory schemes can serve as disincentives to...