4 Digital Keys to Unlock the Potential of the Payer-Provider Model

Earlier this year, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina announced it had acquired the North Carolina locations of FastMed, a national chain of urgent care clinics. Another insurer, Elevance Health, had closed on a deal to buy Paragon Healthcare and its network of 40 infusion centers across eight states. And Humana also was pushing further into the provider world via a partnership with primary care provider Patina Health.
The deals are indeed coming fast and furious in the healthcare industry, collapsing traditional lines of business to create a class of entities known as “payviders”…