February 6, 2025
In California, a First-Ever Multi-Plan, Integrated Approach to Value-Based Contracting
By Mark Hagland
California continues to prove itself as a pacesetter state when it comes to innovating around value-based healthcare contracting. 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.