Navigant's Christopher Kalkhof and Richard Bajner Author HFMA Magazine Article
Since the introduction of the Affordable Care Act and various Medicare and state Medicaid reform initiatives in recent years, healthcare organizations have engaged in innovation and experimentation around payment and care delivery models.
In almost every case, these innovation models share the following primary goals:
A critical building block for this transformation is for providers and payers to move from transactional and purely contractual relationships to building payer provider partnerships that are strategic, durable, long-term, and allow for the creation of product differential and cost advantage value for both parties.