Analysis, frameworks, and commentary on the policies, technologies, and organizational strategies shaping the transition to value-based care.
We stopped calling them patients. That wasn't an accident — it was a philosophy. The shift from transactional "patient encounters" to proactive stewardship of unique lives is the conceptual engine behind value-based care's deepest promise.
The creation of Risant Health isn't just a merger — it's a strategic wager that integrated, outcome-driven healthcare can scale nationally. Here's what it means for health system leaders, payers, and the trajectory of value-based care.
The hospital-at-home model is enabling acute-level care to be delivered outside hospital walls — and AI is what makes it clinically safe at scale. A deep look at the technology, the evidence, and the obstacles to broader adoption.
Population health management isn't a parallel strategy to VBC — it's the mechanism by which VBC actually works. Four pillars explain why.
Predictive models are reshaping how payers identify high-cost populations — but model governance and health equity remain underexamined challenges.
How patients get attributed to providers under APMs can dramatically change financial incentives — and most health system CFOs don't fully understand the mechanics.
Aggregate TCOC benchmarks obscure variation in service categories that offer the highest opportunity for improvement — a gap that demands more granular analysis.