The Rural Health Value (RHV) team is pleased to announce the release of “Designing Rural Value-Based Care for the Future” – a new report identifying strategies and ideas to accelerate rural healthcare organization participation and success in value-based care (VBC) and value-based payment (VBP). In June 2025, The RHV team convened a group of rural health care leaders to discuss the current state and future opportunities of rural VBC and payment. This Summit report is the latest in the series of Rural Health Value convenings and briefs that have offered insight, strategies, and recommendations for those implementing VBC and those designing VBP programs.
Related resources on the Rural Health Value website:
- Rural Value-Based Care – The Payer Perspective, Rural Health Value Summit Report. The report explores insights, innovations, successes, and challenges in rural health value-based care (VBC) contracting with findings gleaned from an RHV convening of professionals and executives from national and regional health care payer organizations. This report summarizes challenges and solutions followed by suggestions for rural health care organization leaders from the Summit participants. (2024)
- Rural Health Value Summit: Driving Value Through Community-Based Partnerships. Four rural communities (in AR, MI, OR, SC) shared experiences with health care and community-based partnerships that highlighted opportunities for policymakers, payers, and health system leaders for building and supporting social needs infrastructure in rural communities in alignment with value-based care strategies. (2023)
Rural Health Value facilitates the transition of rural healthcare organizations, payers, and communities from volume-based to value-based health care and payment models. Visit www.ruralhealthvalue.org.
For more information, contact Clint MacKinney, MD, MS, Co-Principal Investigator, at clint-mackinney@uiowa.edu.