Pearl Health and Wellcare announced a new partnership to advance value-based care in collaboration with primary care physicians. The multi-year Medicare Advantage partnership establishes a pathway to sharing increased financial risk, which allows the two organizations to accelerate their collaboration on several innovative initiatives -- including value-based care (VBC) models -- designed to improve health outcomes and better control costs for Wellcare Medicare Advantage members. Pearl Health offers data insights, financial tools, practice enablement technology, and a broad range of value-based care services to empower clinical teams to provide more proactive, whole-patient care ?

giving primary care providers participating in Wellcare's networks the tools and support they need for success in value-based care. The program is already live in South Carolina, and the partnership with Wellcare sets the stage for expansion nationwide as primary care physicians look for greater support in transitioning more of their panel to advanced value-based care arrangements.