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Integrated Healthcare: Considering the Payment Implications

Executive summaryIntegrated healthcare is an emerging approach to care delivery designed to improve quality of care, reduce overall costs, and enable payers…

By Kenneth J. Merrill, Director Healthcare Product Solutions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Updated on May 21, 2014

Executive summary

Integrated healthcare is an emerging approach to care delivery designed to improve quality of care, reduce overall costs, and enable payers and providers to share in the corresponding savings. It encompasses a number of new care-delivery models, all featuring some form of payment tied to both cost and quality outcomes. One recent research report has suggested that the migration to these new models could lead to a trillion dollars in savings in the United States healthcare industry over the next decade.1 And while the industry is clearly moving in this direction, the administrative needs are daunting, as are the implications to processing healthcare payments. As healthcare organizations evolve into this new model, payers and providers alike will need to address the workflow and business process implications of the new transaction models.

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