Author: cknox

As healthcare accelerates toward value-based models, health systems must find ways to remain relevant in the new era. New strategies, business models and care delivery innovations continue to change the healthcare landscape. To find out more about what leading health systems are saying about trends in the market, click here to read surveys from the (…)

Lumeris and The Health Management Academy (The Academy) are surveying leading health systems to understand strategic factors impacting their move to value. Each quarter, we bring data and insights covering our findings across key areas. The strategic survey reports include: Consolidation: Determine how market consolidation is impacting surveyed health systems; Physician Alignment and Evolving Payment (…)

Effective provider engagement in value-based care is an ongoing operation that requires a comprehensive approach and proven methodologies. In the first post we illustrated the different activities to implement for a provider group early in their risk journey. In the second installment, we focused on how creating the right infrastructure enables growth and expansion in (…)

We continue to examine the success factors for supporting providers during their transition to value-based care. In the first segment we looked at providers just starting on their journey and the phased approach of activities that helped them achieve improved clinical and financial outcomes. In this next entry, we focus on how providers, with the (…)

To successfully transition to value-based care, health systems must engage their physicians in the process. It’s simply not optional. But figuring out the most effective way to engage physicians has remained one of the toughest challenges for organizations. Why? Because physicians drive the bulk of utilization decisions that influence health outcomes, their buy-in is critical (…)