In 2018, there were 590 private equity (PE) deals in the US healthcare industry collectively worth more than $88 billion. Many of these deals focused on historically fragmented specialties within the ...

Over the past several years, the big trend in healthcare has been to inch away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward value-based care, in which a provider's reimbursement is tied more to ...

The Direct Contracting Model saved Medicare $70 million in 2021 as the Biden administration plans a major overhaul to the value-based care program next year. Recently released data from the Centers ...

The first deadline for the Trump administration’s new direct contracting value-based care payment model is right around the corner. But potential applicants are worried about key missing details. For ...

Dozens of provider groups, including America's Physician Groups, American Academy of Home Care Medicine and VillageMD, have signed onto a letter imploring the Biden Administration to open up one more ...

Ten providers — including University of Chicago Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Denver Health — recently posted job listings seeking leaders to help payer contracting and relations. 1.

This article provides insight into health care purchaser priorities and considerations for direct contracting opportunities, along with considerations for interested accountable care organizations.

According to NBGH, nearly half of its members either are already directly contracting with providers or plan to do so in 2019. Walmart is setting an example for other employers with its new ...

On June 7, 2023, the Connecticut Legislature passed HB6669, “An Act Protecting Patients and Prohibiting Unnecessary Health Care Costs” (“the Act”), which includes a prohibition on certain contractual ...

Traditionally, healthcare practices have relied on in-house teams to manage the exhaustive process of provider credentialing. However, this often results in extensive use of resources, both in terms ...