VBC Contracting and Enablement
Product Usage: The reviewer uses Accorded to demonstrate the Return on Investment (ROI) or Value on Investment (VOI) of their digital mental health services to employers and health plan partners.
Strengths: Accorded offers unique service-oriented actuary models which are flexible and cost-effective for evolving digital health companies.
Weaknesses: Accorded could improve in translating their work into marketable deliverables and expanding their analysis scope around value-based care.
Overall Judgment: Accorded has been an excellent partner, offering quality work equivalent to or better than more recognized brands at a competitive price.
Product Usage: The product is primarily used for acquiring commercial payer data to guide negotiations with insurance companies and for marketing to practices.
Strengths: The product’s key strengths include broad data coverage, a responsive team, and highly customizable and well-structured data.
Weaknesses: The product could improve on interpreting and enriching payer data, providing more understanding regarding provider affiliations, and enhancing the main UI to meet specific user needs.
Overall Judgment: The user expresses high satisfaction with the product, finding it to be an excellent choice for their specific data needs.
Product Usage: The user utilized Accorded as an actuarial consultant, providing them with nationwide multi-payer data points to assist in structuring value-based reimbursement contracts with insurance companies.
Strengths: Accorded was praised for offering good quality data, responsive service, and speed in offering analyses, all at an affordable price.
Weaknesses: The user wished Accorded demonstrated more innovative thought partnership and cautioned that users need to be quite prescriptive in their requests to get exactly what they need.
Overall Judgment: The user was very satisfied with the contract data Accorded provided and emphasized that the service offered great value for its cost. They recommended Accorded for organizations in similar circumstances.
Product Usage: The product is primarily used for benchmarking; identifying the standard rates negotiated by their competitor set with various payers.
Strengths: The portal feature is viewed as the product’s strength, providing information on payer reimbursement for any service code.
Weaknesses: The product’s weakness is its timing; turnaround times often change and some tasks take longer than expected.
Overall Judgment: Despite the product being in its early stages and less sophisticated, the high level of customer service and reasonable pricing makes Serif an attractive option.