Value & Risk

The Antidote to Risk: Building Your Stack of Value-Based Capabilities

March 16, 2023 •Lincoln Intelligence Group

Between Medicare Advantage and VBP/VBID, our clinical revenue model is at risk. We reviewed the timeline and approach for building a stack of capabilities for enabling, capturing, and proving value.

The Sands of Time and Your Value-Based Capabilities

February 9, 2023 •Lincoln Intelligence Group

Reactions to the Intelligence Group’s “When to Walk Away from Medicare Advantage” session at Home Care 100 fell squarely into two camps.

Managed Care Success Think Tank Recap : When to Walk Away from Medicare Advantage

November 21, 2022 •Lincoln Intelligence Group

In an extended, 90-minute conversation with an esteemed group of panelists, the message regarding the MA contracting climate was clear: Continuing to accept “ancillary” contracting status is a tacit relegation of our role to commodity status – and that mindset is really out of synch in an industry with such constrained capacity and access. Based on our Nov. 16, 2022 discussion, the main goal moving ahead for home-based Medicare providers is to achieve tightly integrated partnerships of aligned payer and referral sources, with a secondary goal of maximizing the unit contribution of every caregiving resource.

Home is Where the Value Is – But It’s Not Without Risk

November 14, 2022 •Lincoln Intelligence Group

The economics of healthcare produces its own unique kind of “physics.” Specifically, the sheer weight of the system’s drive for value causes the compression of 1) adjacent healthcare settings into one another as well as 2) care into the lowest-cost setting.