Survey: Commercial insurers consider payment reform ‘major priority’

A national survey of commercial health plans found that 82 percent consider payment reform a “major priority” and nearly 60 percent predict that more than half of their business will be supported by value-based payment models in the next five years (Source: “Value-based payment models expected to reach tipping point by 2018, study finds,” Healthcare IT News, May 13, 2013).

The study, titled Health Plan Readiness to Operationalize New Payment Models, was conducted by health information network Availity and examines the migration of commercial plans from a fee-for-service model to value-based models.