Health Care Primer: Risk-Based Contracts Are on the Rise
How Can Your Organization Effectively Manage this Shift?
Increasingly, health care payers are using risk-based contracting as a means of controlling costs and improving care quality and patient experience.
As the movement grows, health care providers find themselves with more questions than answers.
A new white paper, Reducing the ‘Risk’ of Risk-Based Contracts, examines challenges health care organizations face with the growing movement toward risk-based payment arrangements. It offers key insights on:
- How health care organizations assume risk and the types of risk-sharing contracts
- Five ways health care organizations can mitigate risk and increase the chance of success under risk-based contracts
- Why insurance can be an effective tool for health care organizations in managing the volatility of certain forms of risk-based contracting