What does it take to be successful
in a value-based care arrangement?
For one thing, you need to have access
to good value-based contracts with payers
that have good financial incentive opportunities
for you as the provider.
You will need to be able to implement new processes
in your practice to address proactive patient care opportunities,
and you'll need information to inform those new processes
that are not existent in your EMR today,
helping you understand what's happening with your patients
when they're outside the four walls of your practice.
Additionally, you're going to need the resources,
the people resources, to help act on those opportunities
that the data is telling you are there.
Patients who proactively need to address gaps in care,
patients who need follow up after discharge,
and need outreach and med reconciliation, or the like,
patients who are likely to land in the hospital
and being able to understand who they are
and what their proactive care needs are.
All of that suggests needing investment in new capabilities
in order to be successful,
which suggests that you're going to want a partner
who's willing to help make those investments,
with you on your behalf,
and enable you to be successful.
So what should you be looking for in a partner?
One, is having a partner that will
be able to get you good access to good contracts.
A partner who is invested in your success
and helping do right by you and your patients.
A partner who has credible, practical solutions
and good capabilities to help drive the performance
and help you earn those incentives.
And it needs to be a partner who you feel aligned with,
culturally, and from a trust perspective,
that your interests are aligned
and you're working towards each other's mutual benefit.