Humana’s Dr. Vishal Agrawal sheds light on insurer investment trends

Over the past few years, we’ve seen so much insurer investment in provider assets. What’s behind this increase in funding?

We believe the broader construct behind the “payvider” phenomenon is the realization that the provider’s patient and the payer’s member [are] really the same customer. If [providers and payers] are both looking after the customer’s best interests, we actually want the same thing, and so our intention is to…