A value-based care 'enabler' explains its successful model

Dr. Michael Poku, chief clinical officer at Equality Health, discusses the role technology plays in the organization's VBC model and highlights results it has achieved for its member primary care practices.

There are many emerging value-based care models in healthcare that are shifting the definition of what professionals have understood it to be. Equality Health is one example of a VBC success story to tell that offers a different view of value-based models – and holds some lessons that healthcare executives can learn from.

Equality Health labels itself a VBC "enabler" with a Medicaid-first care model that provides technology and people support to independent primary care practices in underserved communities with the aim of making them successful in VBC.

The "VBC enabler" built its Medicaid-first care model and business approach on this intent: aligning healthcare delivery incentives with the interests of patients to improve patient outcomes and create real value in healthcare.

Equality Health is not a vendor in the traditional sense. It has technology, but it doesn't sell it to providers. It gives it away for free when PCPs join the Equality Health Value-Based Care Network, now in five states.

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