As part of The Shields Group, LLC, Union Street Healthcare Payer Strategies was created in response to excessive channel chaos and the need for cogent strategies to achieve better individual outcomes, member satisfaction, improved patient journeys and total population health. Moving From Chaos to Smart, Structured Solutions The chasm between payers and service providers is wide, but surmountable. For payers of all types, buying a single program from a solitary vendor can miss the larger opportunity to create a custom solution that resolves multiple issues and provides a better means to achieve total population health. Whether you're a health plan (Commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid or mixed model), an ACO, ERISA/Taft-Hartley trust, TPA, broker, self-funded employer or other risk-bearing entity, specialized yet complimentary solutions are needed for managing multiple, high-cost & complex medical conditions. No one solution vendor supplies everything.  So, where to start? How to sort through and effectively assess the myriad of solutions knocking at your door? For solution providers…you are visionaries, creators and innovators. You approach problems from a passion driven by a deep personal connection to the issues that compelled you to create your company. Most of you come from a walk of life and share a perspective that’s divergent from the world of insurance, disease or condition management, managed care, pharmacy or healthcare delivery.