The 2025 NAACOS Spring Conference emphasized the urgency of evolving value-based care through localized models, operational simplicity, AI integration, actuarial strategy, and holistic behavioral and specialty care inclusion.
Pearl Health’s last Primary Care Pulse report revealed high burnout and low compensation, but value-based care showed promise—adding your voice in 2025 can help shape a stronger future for primary care.
CMMI’s recent model changes reflect a strategic shift toward scalable, full-risk payment models—reinforcing value-based care, fiscal discipline, provider accountability, and a more integrated, sustainable healthcare delivery system.
Massachusetts family physicians explored advancements in patient care, AI integration, chronic disease management, and healthcare equity at the 2025 Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians Conference.
Learn how physician-led organizations can evaluate value-based care partners—and how Pearl empowers primary care to thrive in a changing healthcare landscape.
Pearl Health achieves HITRUST r2 Certification, demonstrating its commitment to the highest standards of data security, compliance, and risk management.
AI is poised to solve healthcare’s toughest challenges—interoperability, burnout, access—accelerating real change. With Pearl, we’re making it happen.
Pearl Health is enhancing sepsis prevention by helping primary care physicians adopt Sepsis-3 criteria, reducing overdiagnosis from Sepsis-2, improving patient outcomes, and lowering unnecessary Medicare costs through predictive analytics and proactive interventions.
Virginia Care Partners and Pearl Health partner to expand value-based care in Richmond, providing technology, insights, and financial tools for primary care providers.
Holzer Health System and Pearl Health have partnered to enhance patient-centered care for Medicare patients through advanced data insights, financial tools, and provider enablement technology.
David Junius joins Pearl Health as CFO, enhancing risk management expertise to advance value-based care.
Pearl Health helps primary care physicians navigate value-based care models. This article explores future changes under a second Trump administration, and their impact on healthcare costs, patient outcomes, and Medicare sustainability.
CMS’s 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposal aims to advance value-based care but includes a 2.8% reimbursement cut, sparking industry-wide concern over financial viability and calling for comprehensive reform.
As part of Pearl Health’s Drive for Better Care, we recently had a chance to sit down with Dr. Lee Fleisher, Principal and Founder at Rubrum Advising, Former Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and one of Pearl Health’s Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers of 2024.
As part of Pearl Health’s Drive for Better Care, we recently had a chance to sit down with Dr. David B. Nash, Founding Dean Emeritus at Jefferson College of Population Health and one of Pearl Health’s Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers of 2024. A board-certified internist, Dr. Nash is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.
Pearl Health today released its third annual Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers report, which recognizes healthcare providers, policy makers, academics, and thinkers across disciplines who are leading the healthcare system’s transition to value-based care.
In the realm of MSK health, patients often face agonizing journeys. Surgical interventions, despite repeated attempts, leave them in discomfort, burdened with astronomical bills. We advocate for responsible, evidence-based care, prioritizing patient involvement and noninvasive approaches, shifting the paradigm towards holistic healing and shared decision-making.
The newest value-based care model from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), ACO REACH, aims to improve clinical outcomes and reduce Total Cost of Care (TCOC). Providers are incentivized to deliver the best care to their Traditional Medicare patients, while achieving economic efficiencies that are critical to an overburdened Medicare trust fund. One feature of this program — Voluntary Alignment — can empower patients to play a larger role in their own health, while enhancing physicians’ ability to manage their panels and grow their practices.
Jonathan E. Goldin, Chief Legal Officer at Pearl Health, was one of 35 honorees named to Crain’s New York Business 2024 Notable General Counsel list. The list recognizes exceptional in-house lawyers across a variety of industries and includes individuals guiding health care innovators, steering organizations through regulatory landscapes, and supporting marginalized groups, such as defrauded immigrants.
If primary care’s time has come, why doesn’t it feel like it? That’s one question we explored in Pearl’s 2023 Primary Care Pulse Report. After collecting survey responses from more than 200 physicians, conducting follow-up interviews, and exploring secondary research, we learned a great deal about the challenges PCPs face in today’s healthcare system. We explored one challenge, the epidemic of PCP burnout, in a recent blog post, and today will dive into another — physician pay.
NEW YORK (February 6, 2024) — Pearl Health today announced that it has been named to the 2024 New York Digital Health 100 (DH100), a recognition that highlights the most exciting and innovative startups in New York. Digital Health New York (DHNY) publishes the annual list in conjunction with the New York Healthcare Innovation Report, which takes an in-depth look at the investment trends, opportunities and challenges in the digital health sector.
There’s no avoiding a simple fact: primary care physicians (PCPs) are struggling. The majority — whether in small group practices or large multispecialty organizations — feel overworked, under-resourced, and inadequately rewarded in their efforts to provide quality care.
CMS’ ACO REACH model simplifies quality measurement for providers participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Reporting burden is reduced, freeing providers to focus on patient care.
With the right partners, Medicare’s upcoming Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model has the potential to transform dementia care for patients and caregivers.
Walgreens partners with Pearl Health to enhance primary care through value-based care and data-driven insights.
This article, published in Health Affairs, critiques value-based care, emphasizing the need for proactive care models like ACO REACH, while addressing concerns about consolidation and regulatory advancements to promote competition and reduce healthcare costs.
The US healthcare system has long struggled to identify a fair and efficient reimbursement scheme that aligns the incentives of patients, providers, and payers. In this article, Pearl Health recognizes the Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers of 2023 and discusses the biggest themes, news, and trends driving evolution and innovation in value-based care, including physician enablement and data interoperability.
2022 is poised to be a big year for value-based care (VBC). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare
Part 1: Defining Value in Healthcare Value-based care, a term largely attributed to Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg, is the idea of structuring incentives to
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center (CMMI) is hosting a listening session to discuss its October 2021 whitepaper, “Driving Health System Transformation –
Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) make up the lion’s share of the medical workforce and are the main point of contact to the healthcare system for
