Opinion: WellPoint Plan Leads ‘Fee-for-Value’ Transition

WellPoint's new $1 billion initiative to increase primary physician payments by nearly 10% for meeting patient management and medical cost goals is "groundbreaking," Camden Groups executives Jay Warden and Teresa Koenig write in a Payers & Providers opinion piece. They write that it is one of several initiatives that acknowledge "the health reform-fueled transition from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-value world," adding "It's only a matter of time before integrated payer/provider organizations … are more common across the country."

• "Navigating Reform's Challenges" (Warden/Koenig, Payers & Providers, 2/9).