HQW 2026: Value-Based Care: What Quality Leaders Need to Know Now (Live)-HQW 2026: Value-Based Care: What Quality Leaders Need to Know Now (Live)

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Cone Health leaders describe how the North Carolina health system is shifting from volume-based care to a value-based model focused on outcomes, prevention, affordability, equity, and the full patient experience. Serving about 500,000 patients annually, Cone Health has roughly $2.1 billion in value-based care arrangements.<br /><br />The presenters highlight system measures including primary-care access, social drivers of health screening, and follow-up after discharge. They emphasize using data to identify high-risk patients and prevent avoidable emergency visits and readmissions.<br /><br />Examples include partnering with skilled nursing facilities to address readmissions, targeting interventions for sepsis, heart failure, and hip and femur fractures, and sharing facility-specific performance data. Cone Health also gathers patients’ perspectives through readmission interviews, using responses to improve medication access, care coordination, and timely follow-up appointments.<br /><br />Social-needs screening data is combined with geographic and readmission information to identify local barriers—such as transportation—and guide support. The central message is that better outcomes depend on connected care teams, strong community partnerships, and turning patient and performance data into practical interventions.

Keywords

value-based care

Cone Health

patient outcomes

social determinants of health

readmission reduction

care coordination

health data analytics