Specialty Care Models
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Specialty VBC activity is concentrating around two high-cost areas—oncology and kidney care—but the market is splitting between payment-model maturation and evidence-based pruning of digital care management. In oncology, bundled-payment playbooks for community practices and Thyme Care’s $125M+ raise signal continued payer and investor demand for delegated oncology navigation, episode management, and actuarially grounded risk arrangements, even as success depends on drug-cost governance, referral alignment, and practice-level operating discipline (community oncology bundled payments). In kidney care, the Peterson Health Technology Institute’s finding that virtual CKD management has not meaningfully slowed progression or reduced spending is pushing payers, ACOs, and kidney-focused vendors toward earlier CKD identification, evidence-based treatment, and tighter integration with primary care rather than standalone digital engagement models (virtual CKD assessment).
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