Stephen Kinsley, group vice president of strategy and payer engagement with Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates, told “Becker’s ASC Review Podcast” that SCA is looking to stay ahead of the curve on value-based care.
Note: This is an edited excerpt. Listen to the full podcast episode here.
Question: How invested is SCA in value-based care?
Stephen Kinsley: About 65 percent of our ASCs have some form of a value-based agreement, and about 35 or 36 percent of them have more than one.
At the beginning of this year, we invested in an organization and acquired a company by the name of Global 1. So Global 1 sits within the SCA family now, and they are one of the largest conveners of bundles today in the healthcare space; they have countless day-of-service bundles in place today.
We often in the SCA world reference a sports analogy. So Wayne Gretzky, who is an iconic retired hockey player, used to say that what made him successful was he was going to where the puck was [going], not where it is, and that’s where we view value-based [care].
So we had an opportunity to go where [healthcare is] going, aligning with Global 1, and it took our tool belt and made it so much more robust. I just think that value-based [care] is where you need to be if you’re going to be successful in the future in healthcare.
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