Health reform driving payer-provider partnerships

Payers and providers have for decades stayed in their silos, leading to a more fractured and adversarial healthcare system. That relationship, however, is starting to soften for many in the industry. Payer-provider partnerships put the two groups on the same team in hopes of reducing costs and improving care and outcomes through sharing data and better communication.

 A major driver of these partnerships is the move away from fee-for-service payments and toward valued-based payments and population health management.