Value-Based Care: Smarter Care for Better Health

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) is committed to setting up value-based payment arrangements with health care providers that promotes care leading to better outcomes, all for a reasonable cost.

Our approach to developing value-based care payment arrangements is helping shift health care's focus from paying for more services to paying for better care and outcomes.1

The value-based care models are designed to:

  • Incentivize doctors and hospitals when they help members improve their health by achieving better health outcomes 
  • Focus on efficent care (or reducing wasted resources) that may lower employer group health care costs
  • Improve the health care experience for members
  • Increase collaboration among health care providers to reduce fragmentation or ineffective coordination

At BCBSOK our goal is to develop ways to help our contracted providers improve health care and reduce the overall costs of care. Our value-based care models show our evolving steps for balancing quality and affordability.

1 Prior results are not a guarantee of any future results and individual results may vary. The programs are tools to assist the independently contracted providers in rendering care to members. The final decision about any health care service or treatment is between the member and his or her health care provider.

2 The data includes only those claims that have been paid by BCBSOK.