Payvider: Health Insurance Payer and Healthcare Provider Combination Explained

Payvider: Health Insurance Payer and Healthcare Provider Combination Explained.
A 'Payvider' is an organization that combines a health insurance company that collects premium and bears risk with a provider of healthcare services (e.g. primary care clinics, specialist clinics, hospitals, etc.)
Kaiser is the oldest and most well known payvider with over 12 million members, 40 hospitals and 618 clinics.
A handful of hospital systems have started insurance companies to become payviders... UPMC and Intermountain are two examples.
Health insurance carriers have placed a major emphasis on becoming payviders.
The reason insurance carriers are so interested in becoming payviders is that revenue from their provider services is not subject to the 85% Medical Loss Ratio that was dictated by the Affordable Care Act.
Therefore, insurance carriers essentially use their insurance money to pay themselves as 'providers' to make additional profits... diverting revenue from traditional hospital systems.
UnitedHealth Group has its Optum provider arm.
Aetna has Oakstreet.
Cigna made a $2.5 billion investment in VillageMD
Elevance (Anthem) has Carelon, which just purchased a healthcare navigation service and a 150 clinic physician practice in Florida called Millenium.
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[@well5423]

Excellent intro to Payvider trend - thank you Dr Bricker.

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[@kentwheatley6177]

Don't forget Humana is rapidly expanding CenterWell Primary Care. Here in Arizona the largest healthcare system, Banner Health recently expanded from MA DSNP only to MA HMO & PPO plans as well. Keep up the great work, Dr. Bricker. Thank you!

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[@fhd89234n8f43n7]

Dr Bricker is such a beast. Last 90 seconds of this video I’m thinking, “Okay, so hospitals are shifting the profit to themselves? What’s the problem?” @8:04 “So here’s why it’s a problem…” Well played, sir. Well played…

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[@Junkforcac]

Couple questions - don't commercial plans have MLRs as well, so why do inter company eliminations only affect MA? And in your example, the $6120 you call profit - is that actually profit, or is it just what the payvider gets to keep (and might have to spend on physician care for the bene and thus actually keep less of the $6120 after costs)

[@xus0187]

This is a really good summary

[@ahealthcarez]

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[@johnm.3279]

You can Health First (Brevard Co. FL) to that list. They started with this model back in the late 90's.

[@ahealthcarez]

Thank you for the addition.

[@robertmitchell3456]

Hi Dr. Bricker, Thank you for another great video! At the end you mention hospitals will go to carriers to get more money from commercially insured on self-funded plans. Are you talking about provider contracts and wouldn't fully insured plans also be affected?

[@ahealthcarez]

Yes, but insurance carriers want fully insured groups to have steady trending higher claims so the insurers can raise premiums and keep the 15% MLR of a larger number.

[@StephenWhalen-uw5vr]

As a general rule, risk-based compensation arrangements, where providers are more profitable the better the job they do keeping people healthy, catching disease processes early, advising on behavioral health issues, etc. represent significantly better alignment of incentives among payers, providers and patients than fee-for-service compensation arrangements. I would be curious to hear if anyone has a different view on this topic. Thanks!

[@ahealthcarez]

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[@Robert-hy3vv]

Do you believe a free market healthcare system would decrease costs, increase innovation, and improve service quality among hospitals and pharmaceutical companies especially if you got rid of things such as certificate of need to allow more local hospitals to compete with one another?

[@ahealthcarez]

Yes. Thank you for your comment.

[@gardenofeden11]

this seems like it should be illegal, it seems anti competitive towards small health care providers

[@ahealthcarez]

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[@ggjr61]

Kaiser is terrible. Don’t use them if you can help it.

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