Pearl of the week: Payment timing makes or breaks value-based care

Delayed dollars can quietly derail care transformation

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STEPS Forward Pearl of the Week

Value-based care often fails not because the model is flawed, but because the money arrives too late. Across practices, leaders described how retrospective payments weakened momentum and made sustained investment impossible. Timely, predictable payments changed behavior, supported staffing decisions, and kept care models alive long enough to deliver results.

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