Health plans continue to play a critical role in the journey towards a consumer-centric, performance-based, and cost-effective healthcare model. They have been evolving to keep pace with the changing industry, and 2017 is shaping up to be much of the same.

With the future of the Affordable Care Act up in the air and the individual market on the rise, health plans will need to incubate innovation and find new ways to transform their organization, create joint ventures, and acquire new products and offerings to serve other health plans.

With that in mind we have compiled the top five trends that will impact health plans in 2017.