White Paper Outlines Capital Tools to Fund Value-Based Care Shift
Becker's Hospital Review excerpts a white paper, Financing the Future of Care, that identifies five barriers slowing healthcare organizations' shift from fee-for-service to value-based care: high up-front investment costs, lags between care delivery and payment, disconnected data systems, financial risk exposure, and the cost of population-scale genomic testing. For each barrier, the paper proposes financing tools such as working capital facilities, receivables financing, staged investment for technology integration, underwriting or reinsurance mechanisms, and pooled funding strategies for genomic testing. The paper cites survey data, including that 75% of healthcare leaders identified data interoperability as a VBC barrier and 87% of surveyed hospitals, ACOs, FQHCs, CINs, and specialty providers cited financial risk as the top adoption barrier.