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Negotiating payer contracts for your practice without the proper tools is a bit like fishing without a pole-challenging and usually not fruitful. Using a value plan can help you take control of the situation, create improved new contracts, and obtain better rates for existing contracts. A value plan collects focused information and pertinent data to demonstrate the worth of your practice in practical terms that are useful to a payer’s business. A value presentation takes the gathered facts and configures the data to demonstrate your unique worth to prospective and current payers. This hard work results in better contracts.