Force for HealthIncentive Alignment Concept
Prepared for Banner Health · Arizona
Banner owns the hospital, the health plan, the pharmacy, the home oxygen unit and more — yet the way each one gets paid quietly pits them against one another. Force for Health puts every unit, and every patient, on a single scoreboard: keep people well.
That's the whole problem in one sentence. When sick people are the revenue, prevention is a threat. Force for Health flips it — so that a healthier community is the most profitable outcome for every Banner business unit at the same time.
Each card below is a real Banner-owned unit in Arizona — plus the local employer who quietly funds much of it. Every card has its own switch — flip one to walk through a single unit, or use the big switch to flip the whole company at once.
Switches every unit below — and the scenarios further down — all at once.
Flip them all green and the point lands in four words: we're all on the same team. Acting in unison, every unit, employer and family wins together — that's not a slogan, it's the incentive math.
Three real situations that play out in your community every week. Pick one — then flip the big switch above to see who's happy and who's frustrated.
Alignment doesn't stop at Banner's walls. The real multiplier is wrapping the whole community around the person — so the primary injury never happens, and the secondary one never gets the chance.
A Prepared Patient who knows their condition, their plan, and their next right action.
A Prepared Home — grab bars in, throw rugs out, meds organized, a trained caregiver who knows what to watch for.
Hospital, physicians, pharmacy, home health and home oxygen — aware of the social determinants and rewarded for keeping the person well.
Medicare Advantage and AHCCCS plans whose per-member dollars finally line up with everyone else's.
Schools, after-school clubs, parks & rec, faith groups, employers and the Chamber of Commerce — the same civic network your leadership already champions, now organized as a Chamber of Health, with a healthier workforce for everyone in it.
The boldest move on this whole map starts with the unit that carries the most risk and the thinnest margin. Walk the flywheel one step at a time.
Not as a vendor line item — as a co-development & commercialization partner, taking an early equity stake in the platform it helps shape.
The parent company and its other branches — hospitals, the ACO, Medicare Advantage, pharmacy, home care, DME — become customer number one. A friendly, real-world proving ground.
The units stop fighting each other, the scenarios on this page play out green, and the ROI engine documents real savings, market by market.
Proof from a respected system isn't a pilot anymore — it's a reference customer and a repeatable playbook. That's the thing that moves a valuation.
Higher valuation and profit flow back to fund Banner Medicaid more substantially, deepen community engagement, and share the next version with health systems across the country.
Because Banner Medicaid got in first, the commercialization upside flows back to the very unit that took the risk — funding the next cycle of community good. The safety net becomes self-reinforcing.
As a co-development partner, it shares in the revenue FFH earns from every other customer — starting inside Banner, then across the nation.
Every avoided ER visit, admission and readmission among its own members drops straight to margin — the core capitation win.
The FFH benefit becomes a differentiator that attracts and retains members — more lives enrolled, more per-member revenue.
As the validated model proves out and scales, the early equity stake appreciates — the investor upside that funds the next cycle.
The unit with the least margin to spare becomes the one that seeds a national platform — and earns its way to doing more of exactly what it exists to do. That's not charity. That's a return on alignment.
Every nonprofit health system already has to assess and serve community health needs. Force for Health and PHIT make that obligation faster, measurable, and worth far more than the box it checks.
Nonprofit hospitals must complete a Community Health Needs Assessment and act on it. The FFH Chamber of Health and its programs support both the regional collaborative CHNA and the individual hospital CHNA as a turnkey, year-round solution — not a scramble every three years.
The Population Health Improvement Tool captures community activity as it happens and feeds the CHNA automatically. The report largely writes itself — with the evidence to back every line.
Track which programs prevent the most illness, injury and readmission — so dollars flow to what moves the needle, not just what sounds good in a board meeting.
Community planning, compliance reporting and research engagement all run on one shared dataset — faster, cheaper, and audit-ready.
Prove it once in Arizona, and Banner owns a repeatable engine it can sell to every health system in the country — or simply keep. Force for Health becomes a Banner business unit that makes money by making people well, and frees the trauma beds and cath labs for the patients who truly need them.