While 79 percent of healthcare organizations are in at least one payment arrangement with a payer that includes either upside gain or both upside and downside gain/risk, most organizations are still just testing the waters, according to a survey report from Numerof & Associates.
And, the survey found that healthcare organizations are contending with a number of barriers and challenges to pursuing population health, including issues with internal systems, difficulty in changing the organization’s culture and hesitation about when to make the transition from the current fee-for-service model.
