3M HIS is an industry leader for payment methodologies, patient classification, risk adjustment and methodologies to identify potentially preventable health care services (emergency department usage, admissions, readmissions, and ancillary services). These solutions are used by state governments, and nearly 200 private payers (of all sizes) in the United States and worldwide. We have been innovators in the value-based payment movement going as back as far back as fifteen years, foreseeing the need for the industry to shift its focus from volume to value based purchasing. As a result, our analytic solutions are proven to identify inefficiency in healthcare delivery, quantify the risk-adjusted effect on total cost of care, and provide practitioners with critical information about practice patterns and the resulting contribution to the value equation.