Cigna exceeded its value-based care goal of having 50 percent of U.S. Medicare and commercial health care provider payments through alternative payment arrangements in the company’s top 40 markets by year-end 2018. Cigna established the goal in 2015 to accelerate the transition to alternative payment models that link health care provider payments to both quality and affordability.

Ten years ago, Cigna launched value-based care delivery to begin to transition to a health care delivery system that pays health care providers based on improved health outcomes instead of the traditional fee-for-service model, which pays providers based on volume.

Learn more about how Cigna is Moving from Volume to Value [PDF], resulting in better quality care for customers.