Numerof & Associates Releases Annual Report on Health Adoption

On April 10, 2018, Numerof & Associates released its third annual national study of population health adoption. The report provides a national in-depth look at the pace of transition from fee-for-service models to models that are based on fixed payments linked to outcomes. According to the report, a growing number of healthcare delivery organizations are failing to keep pace with their population health objectives and are actually continuing to fall further behind the industry leaders. The report surveys and summarizes responses from over 400 executives and decision makers in the healthcare industry. Unfortunately, progress has failed to keep up with prior expectations. In each prior survey, respondents predicted a dramatic increase in the percentage of annual revenue that would be at risk in the next two years. However, those projections were not realized, as the majority of respondents to this year’s survey (54 percent) still reported less than 10 percent of their revenue comes through risk-based agreements. The results from the report indicate many organizations have fallen short of their targets. In the 2015 survey, over half of respondents predicted they would be at least “very prepared” to take on risk in 2017. In the current survey, however, only one in five felt they had achieved that mark. Despite the slow overall adoption, some leading organizations did report a substantial portion of revenue moving to new models, increasing the gap over the lagging pr...
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