Risk Sharing Agreements in the US

Outcomes-based risk sharing agreements tie reimbursement for medical goods or services to patient outcomes.  Despite the increasing demand from policymakers for value-based payment mechanism, risk-sharing agreements are not that comment.  A paper by Garrison et al. (2015) found that there were only 148 risk sharing agreements (RSAs) worldwide between the late 1990s and 2013 and only 18 of the…