Arbital Health
An independent umpire for value-based care contracts, measuring and settling risk agreements between payers and providers.
Highlights
- Centralized repository for value-based and outcome-based contract terms and logic
- Independent measurement of performance against quality, cost, and utilization benchmarks
- Adjudication and settlement workflows designed as a neutral third party between payer and provider
- Merlin AI: an embedded actuarial assistant that forecasts financial impact and explains results
- Auditable, transparent calculations both contracting parties can verify
- Data consolidation across claims, clinical, and contract sources for a single source of truth
- Actuarial modeling to test contract structures before signing
- Dispute reduction through standardized, reproducible measurement methodology
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About Arbital Health
What it is
Arbital Health measures, adjudicates and settles value-based care contracts — the risk-sharing agreements between payers, providers and digital health companies where payment depends on outcomes. It positions itself as a neutral third party rather than as either side's tool.
Why it's different
Neutrality is the product, and the problem it addresses is real. In a value-based contract both parties calculate performance from their own data with their own assumptions, arrive at different numbers, and spend months arguing — which is a large part of why these contracts are harder to run than they look and why many quietly revert to fee-for-service. An agreed independent umpire is the structural fix. What to weigh: neutrality is a claim that has to be continuously earned, the methodology is where all the disagreement actually lives so it needs to be inspectable rather than proprietary, and this only matters in a market with these contracts, which is essentially the United States.
How people use it
It is used where both sides want a contract to work and neither trusts the other's arithmetic. The practical value is fewer disputes and faster settlement, which makes the next contract easier to sign. Anyone evaluating it should push on how the methodology is published and how disagreements with the adjudication are handled, because that is what determines whether the neutrality is real.
Written by the n3os team. We are not affiliated with Arbital Health.
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