Driving Better Outcomes Through High-Value Partnerships
Contributing experts: Kristie Spencer and Ariel Bayewitz
A decade of results confirms what care providers already know: when incentives align, care improves. Elevance Health extends value-based care (VBC) beyond contracts — connecting insights, collaboration, and incentives to improve quality, affordability, and experiences for all.
We’ve Learned What Works
Shared Risk Drives Results
Care providers in value-based arrangements with shared financial risk consistently achieve better outcomes at lower cost than those in upside-only shared savings models.2
Capabilities Create Confidence
Timely insights and performance reporting enable care providers to apply evidence-based care with greater efficiency, improving outcomes and affordability across patient populations.
Scale Accelerates Impact
Shared-risk models aren't the right fit for every organization. Smaller practices can contract with National Value Partners, which participate in shared-risk arrangements with affiliated health plans on their behalf.
By working with National Value Partners, independent care providers can participate in value-based care with the right data, support, and infrastructure needed to improve outcomes — while helping reduce financial risk exposure.
Success takes more than signing contracts. It takes smarter models, shared data, alignment of incentives, and meaningful collaboration.
Empowering Care Providers with Tools That Drive Better Outcomes
Elevance Health is helping care providers thrive in value-based arrangements through connected tools and intelligent insights that reduce administrative burden and uncover actionable opportunities.
Simplifying data sharing through seamless chart uploads.
Reducing friction through Medicare Star Ratings bonus opportunities that support evidence-based, quality care.
Streamlining workflows with electronic medical record (EMR) integration.
Identifying practice opportunities to manage costs, enhance affordability, and improve efficiency and quality.
These actions help build true partnerships that deliver lasting results.
The Results are Clear
Data confirms that meaningful incentives and robust support drive better outcomes. Care providers in value-based care arrangements are consistently outperforming non-VBC peers — especially those in shared-risk models.
Better performance on quality metrics leads to earlier disease detection, stronger prevention, and more effective chronic disease management — ultimately saving lives.3
Clinical Quality Performance for Value-Based and Shared Risk Groups Versus Non-Value-Based Care Providers
Read how value-based care providers deliver millions in savings and lower per-member, per-month costs, advancing affordability without compromising care.
Elevance Health’s approach to care provider success doesn’t stop at operational support. It’s about driving results in value-based care. See how our partnership with TriHealth is transforming collaboration into measurable improvements in prevention, chronic care, and overall health outcomes.
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Partnering with Elevance Health has strengthened our ability to deliver better outcomes for senior patients while advancing the benefits of our value-based care model through agilon health. Together, we’ve achieved steady gains in managing chronic conditions — from colorectal cancer screening to kidney health and statin use for patients with diabetes. We’re grateful to Elevance Health for sharing our commitment to helping seniors live healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Pioneer Physicians Network, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
National Value Partners Help Primary Care Practices Succeed in Value-Based Care
agilon health partner practices in Georgia, Kentucky, and Ohio have dramatically improved their quality scores on key health metrics that make a real difference in patient health:
+70% in colorectal screenings
+90% in statin use and kidney health evaluations for patients with diabetes
Connecting People to High-Performing Care
We’re not only supporting care providers — we’re also guiding people to the right care. Through multiple points of engagement — including FindCare, the SydneySM Health app, and proactive care management outreach —people are connected to top-performing practices with proven results.
Together, We’re Redefining Partnership
By combining aligned incentives, actionable data, and shared accountability, Elevance Health and our care provider partners are advancing a healthcare system that’s simpler, more affordable, and a better experience for all.
Partnership Isn’t a Program — It’s How We Deliver Better Health
1 Elevance Health analysis, September 2025.
2 Elevance Health Quality Data, 2024
3 Elevance Health Quality Data, 2024.
4 agilon health Year-Over-Year Performance Report, 2025.
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