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Master Value-Based Care

A Modern Infrastructure Playbook for Scaling Risk-Based Contracts

Healthcare organizations are expanding their VBC arrangements, yet many still rely on slow, manual workflows to understand performance. This playbook offers a clear path for building the infrastructure that makes risk contracts easier to manage, interpret, and scale.

This your guide to:

 Spotting the operational issues that undermine solid VBC strategies
  Understanding how delays, data gaps, and misaligned teams slow progress
  Strengthening alignment among finance, actuarial, and clinical teams
  Scaling risk arrangements with fewer surprises and better visibility

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Master Your VBC Contracts

What's Inside

A concise breakdown of the most common pitfalls in risk-based contracting and a practical framework for replacing manual processes with reliable, real-time visibility into performance.

Key Features:

  • Clear explanation of why risk contracts frequently fall short
  • Insight into how fragmented data and mechanical errors create friction
  • A blueprint for unified contract logic and automated adjudication
  • Guidance on building infrastructure that supports scalable VBC growth

What's Inside

This guide, informed by Arbital Health’s expert-led panel discussion, combines decades of experience to provide actionable strategies for payers, providers, risk enablers, and other organizations managing Medicare Advantage VBC contracts.

Key Features:

  • Insights from industry leaders in Medicare Advantage and Value-Based Care.
  • Solutions to tackle rising costs, regulatory shifts, and evolving quality metrics.
  • Practical strategies to future-proof your organization against financial risks.

Meet the Authors


Rich Gamret, FSA, MAAA
Chief Delivery Officer
Arbital Health


Andrew Mackenzie, FSA, CERA, MAAA
Chief Science Officer
Arbital Health


Lewis Mattison
Managing Director & Founder

Mattison Advisory

About Arbital Health

Arbital Health provides the critical infrastructure for providers and payers to successfully manage risk-based contracts. With the industry’s leading healthcare actuaries and robust AI-powered platform, Arbital Health accelerates contract performance monitoring and decision-making, centralizes fragmented data, and automates contract reconciliation across all major risk models. By reducing complexity and administrative burden, Arbital Health ensures value-based care contracts deliver on their promise of better patient outcomes and sustainable financial performance. 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.