To ensure success with Medicaid value-based payments, it is essential states invest time and energy up front in strategic planning.

Under the new Medicare Shared Savings Program’s new rule, there will be a more urgent need for accountable care organizations to reduce population costs.

For shared risk agreements to be transformational, providers and payers must work together to construct agreements that adequately reward providers, are economically viable over a multiyear period, and strive to transfer care management risk.