Prepare for the Financial Shift from FFS to Population Health

Of all the strategic shifts facing health systems in the coming years, none involves so many underlying fundamentals of the business as the shift away from a fee-for-service model of reimbursement to one more based on risk-bearing contracts and population health models. At HealthLeaders Media's 2012 CFO Exchange and CEO Exchange events, senior executives described the shift as a great leap forward with both high potential and a big downside.