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WEBINAR RECORDING

The VBC Reckoning:
A Payer's Honest Look at Wins, Failures, and What Comes Next

In this recording, you’ll learn:

  • Where value-based care has delivered for payers, and where results have fallen short
  • How fragmented, spreadsheet-driven data undermines value-based care progress
  • What it will take to make value-based care work going forward

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About the Discussion

Value-based care promised better outcomes at lower cost. If the returns are still hard to prove, watch this candid discussion on where value-based care has delivered for payers, where results have fallen short, and why programs stall before they scale.

Hear Tim Smith, Niall Brennan, and Ali Khan examine how fragmented, spreadsheet-bound data and legacy systems limit visibility into program performance. Explore the data and operational conditions that help value-based programs perform, and what it will take to make the model work going forward.

In this recording, you’ll learn:

  • Where value-based care has delivered for payers, and where results have fallen short
  • How fragmented, spreadsheet-driven data undermines value-based care progress
  • What it will take to make value-based care work going forward

Meet the Presenters

Tim Smith
ASA, MAAA, MS
Chief Actuary
Arbital Health

Niall Brennan
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Horizon BCBS

Ali Khan
MD, MPP, FACP
Advisor, Andreessen Horowitz
Former CMO of Medicare, Aetna

Value-based care promised better outcomes at lower cost. If the returns are still hard to prove, watch this candid discussion on where value-based care has delivered for payers, where results have fallen short, and why programs stall before they scale.

Hear Tim Smith, Niall Brennan, and Ali Khan examine how fragmented, spreadsheet-bound data and legacy systems limit visibility into program performance. Explore the data and operational conditions that help value-based programs perform, and what it will take to make the model work going forward.

In this recording, you’ll learn:

  • Where value-based care has delivered for payers, and where results have fallen short
  • How fragmented, spreadsheet-driven data undermines value-based care progress
  • What it will take to make value-based care work going forward

Meet the Presenters

Tim Smith
ASA, MAAA, MS
Chief Actuary
Arbital Health

Niall Brennan
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Horizon BCBS

Ali Khan
MD, MPP, FACP
Advisor, Andreessen Horowitz
Former CMO of Medicare, Aetna

2024 Arbital Health LinkedIn_Company Profile Logo-1   About Arbital Health

Arbital Health provides the Actuarial AI-enabled infrastructure for providers and ​payors​​ ​to successfully manage risk-based contracts. Combining the industry’s leading value-based care actuaries with a robust AI-powered platform, Arbital Health centralizes fragmented data, accelerates contract performance monitoring, and helps speed decision making. The company’s embedded actuarial AI assistant is powered by actuarial logic to continuously measure contract performance, forecast financial impact, and deliver actionable insights to drive down spend and MLR, improving patient outcomes while there is still time to act. Arbital Health is led by a best-in-class team of healthcare actuaries, engineers, and industry veterans, and backed by leading investors: Valtruis, Transformation Capital, Shaper Capital and Healthy Ventures. For more information, visit ArbitalHealth.com. 

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