Organizations working toward payer-provider alignment do not necessarily have to lead with the financial angle, Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health’s COO, Matt Hocks, said.
Mr. Hocks recently assumed responsibility for Sanford and Security Health Plans. In a recent interview with Becker’s, he shared takeaways on achieving payer-provider alignment from his experience at an integrated health system.
“Rather than just thinking about it from a financial relationship, it’s really taking the finances off the table for now and coming in and saying, ‘How do we organize around the patient, and what are we learning from that? And then how do we share that?’” Mr. Hocks said…