Avalere researchers administered a survey to 50 payers on their use of outcomes-based agreements in 2019. While more than half of health plans are using outcomes-based contracts now, in 2017, only 24 percent of health plans had such contracts.
Avalere found almost 60 percent of health plans that already had an outcomes-based contract reported savings and clinical improvement as the biggest advantages of the agreement. Since Avalere began completing its study in 2017, both cost savings and clinical improvements have increased.
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