Driving system-wide growth: How Chartis helped a provider-sponsored health plan realize its full potential

The Client Challenge:

A top pediatric health system experienced financial challenges due to the pandemic, with negative impacts on volume, workforce, and facilities investments. Their health plan served a specialty pediatric population and maintained a single revenue source through a Medicaid contract. Leadership sought strategies to improve the health plan’s financial viability and looked to Chartis to identify performance and growth opportunities.

Provider-sponsored health plans (PSHPs) can miss important value opportunities when not fully integrated with the parent health system’s strategy:

• Meeting member needs by leveraging the parent health system’s existing comprehensive network of providers.
• Closing care gaps by coordinating complex care management with the parent health system.
• Reducing administrative costs by instituting shared services between the health plan and health system.
• Driving domestic spending for member service utilization, supported by top-tier care delivery and innovation with the parent health system.

Navigating to Next: The Solution

The health system partnered with Chartis to conduct an opportunity assessment specific for the PSHP. Chartis identified a need for a clear governance structure to align on short- and long-term priorities impacting the health plan and the broader organization. The health plan was not being utilized in the organization’s strategic planning, missing the opportunity to position the PSHP as an asset and revenue driver for the broader health system.

Chartis identified 2 key opportunities for the PSHP to demonstrate its value proposition to support overarching financial and performance goals:

1. Revenue diversification through strategic growth, market expansion, value-based care, and non-premium revenue, which would mitigate the risk of its current single revenue source.
2. Alignment between the broader health system and health plan’s leadership, including development of a governance and enterprise strategy on managed care capabilities, and enablement of shared services across entities.