Remaining Profitable In The Transition To Value-Based Payment

Last month in the OPEN MINDS Management Newsletter, a quote from Debbie Cagle, Chief Marketing Officer, Centerstone caught my eye – Ms. Cagle noted, “At the end of the day, everyone is saying FFS is going away. Maybe it is. But today, we are just transitioning to these models of care and we have to step up to all of them” (see The Keys To Negotiating Risk-Based Contracts: Advice From Centerstone’s Debbie Cagle).

Debbie may have stated the obvious – we’re in a time of transition in the reimbursement to provider organizations for health care services. It is a . . .