Transform payer pressure into revenue strength
Health systems are operating inside a revenue ecosystem under structural stress.
Sustainable revenue depends on earlier, clearer decisions
Sustainable revenue requires earlier, more confident decisions. Vizient connects payer strategy, market intelligence, and financial expertise to help leaders strengthen reimbursement outcomes, optimize payer mix, and improve net revenue yield. Move beyond reactive contract negotiations through integrated forecasting, modeling, and strategy that aligns contract performance, payer mix evolution, and enterprise priorities.
In practice
What stronger payer strategy makes possible
Shift payer relationships
Moving beyond zero-sum negotiations enables more collaborative, sustainable payer-provider value models.
Anticipate reimbursement trends
Advanced analytics improve forecasting, helping leaders navigate uncertainty and make smarter financial decisions.
Navigate margin pressure
Payer reimbursement pressure remains a central challenge shaping health system financial performance strategies.
Payers and providers that commit to radical collaboration will need to work through multiple facets of their partnership structure, including governance models and incentive sharing. These efforts will require greater trust between parties, appropriate tools and safeguards, and a greater sense of imagination and creativity to identify and develop a future shared operating and business model.
Payer mix shifts demand strategy
Medicaid enrollment declines while uninsured populations rise, requiring proactive financial planning to protect margins and sustain care delivery.
Medicaid enrollment
According to our forecast, Medicaid enrollment is expected to decline to 23% of the overall payer mix between 2026-2031.
Uninsured patients
The proportion of uninsured patients is projected to rise to 12% by 2031.
PRODUCTS
The capabilities behind the solution
Payer strategy and contract optimization
Strengthen contract positioning with better comparative data, market insight and clearer evaluation of net revenue yield.
Vizient Networks
Combine intelligence, expert guidance, and peer collaboration to improve outcomes and accelerate progress. Vizient Networks helps leaders turn insight into sustained performance improvement.
STRATEGY
Treat payer strategy as an enterprise growth discipline
Connect contract strategy, market intelligence, and financial planning so payer decisions strengthen net revenue yield across the portfolio rather than reacting one negotiation at a time.
PERFORMANCE
Build value-based partnerships that can actually perform
Support value-based models with the operating discipline, partnership evaluation, and care-delivery alignment required to create sustainable return.
RESILIENCE
See structural pressure before it hardens into crisis
Use stronger visibility into payer mix shifts, denials, and reimbursement volatility to act earlier and build more resilient revenue strategy.
ASSESS YOUR ORGANIZATION
See your organization's performance in perspective
See how you compare and where to focus next.