​Value-based care is at an inflection point. Medicare Advantage - and money - has tightened up in 2024. There’s plenty of apprehension around prior authorization, utilization management, and payors expecting more and more from their enablement and risk-bearing partners.

​Within the value-based care landscape, the low-hanging fruit around site-of-service differentials, a low utilization environment, and better care coordination in primary care has played itself out. As utilization and acuity levels rise amid an aging population, risk-bearing organizations are looking to the next level of value-based care. 

​Value-based 2.0 is on the horizon. Specialty care’s time is now. 

​Specialty care drives a disproportionate share of healthcare costs, but up until recently, specialists have remained untouched by value-based care initiatives

​Meanwhile, the space has received rampant investment from health systems, payors, and venture capitalists alike given the notable economic opportunity to drive significant downstream savings while aligning incentives.

​Join seasoned executives from leading value-based specialty care enablement firms - Strive Health and Karoo Health - alongside me, Blake Madden, as we have a thoughtful discussion around the latest trends affecting specialty VBC at-large, and a more tactical discussion around the kidney care and cardiology spaces, including how these organizations are transforming specialty care in America. 

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​Blake Madden

​​Blake Madden is the Founder and Creator of Hospitalogy, a newsletter affiliated with Workweek Media that provides the latest insights on healthcare finance, strategy, M&A, and digital health. Blake brings relevant thought leadership and in-depth analysis to more than 24,000 healthcare decision makers since launching Hospitalogy in April 2022. Prior to joining Workweek, Blake worked at the healthcare consulting firm VMG Health, where he provided valuation and advisory services for clients across all healthcare services verticals including nonprofit health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care, imaging centers, physician practices, and more.