Becker's Healthcare August 28, 2024
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Health was an early adopter of value-based care principles, deploying strategies to boost quality and lower costs. The health system pioneered owning a health plan and driving down pharmaceutical costs with CivicaRx.
Intermountain has the reputation of leading in value-based care. But now, health system leaders are ditching the term for a new concept: proactive care.
“We made the change for a couple of reasons,” said Greg Poulson, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Intermountain, on an episode of the “Becker’s Healthcare Podcast.” “One is we think it defines more precisely what we’re about. We’re trying to, whenever possible, get upstream to make sure people are as healthy as they can be and...
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