IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts

Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by colinmhayes on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:04PM (#30047821)

This is why insurances are moving toward capitated plans. Instead of paying for services provided health care providers get paid per patient they care for. That way the perverse incentive created by asymmetric information is removed.

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Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by lotsofpulp on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:15PM (#30047945)

I thought it was the opposite, that everything is moving towards value based payment, or at least it seems to be for government funded healthcare:

https://www.chcs.org/its-not-just-risk-why-the-shift-to-valu...

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Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by colinmhayes on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:28PM (#30048103)

Well implemented capitated plans are value based. Value based just means there are incentives for better than expected health outcomes and disincentives for bad outcomes. If you have a non-value based capitated plan health care providers would reduce the quality of care, so value based strategies were implemented to ensure patients receive good care even though providing it costs money.

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Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by lotsofpulp on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:31PM (#30048843)

Oh, thanks for the clarification. I thought they were not compatible.

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