February 10, 2025
A Health Plan Leader’s Perspective on California’s Multi-Plan Value Breakthrough
By Mark Hagland
Leaders of stakeholder groups from across California continue to demonstrate why the Golden State keeps setting the pace in so many areas of U.S. healthcare. Just last month, leaders from the purchaser, health plan, and provider worlds announced a groundbreaking value-based payment structure that involves three major health plans that are competitors in the state’s healthcare market working together with an organizing purchaser organization, to pursue integrated care delivery and care management work with physicians in group practices across the state.