Corvalia Health
Corvalia Health was created to drive the value agenda in healthcare — moving from volume to outcomes that matter. We co-create the strategies, teams, contracts and systems to make it happen.

What we believe
Value
We care about the value equation in healthcare — outcomes that matter to the patient, against the resources used to achieve them.
Care
The patient is no longer "at the centre" of healthcare, market dynamics and misaligned incentives are powerful competing forces. We want to help all those who work in healthcare... get back to caring.
Teams
Change is hard. Healthcare teams are stretched. They need support and the right tools to deliver value in a tough environment. We work alongside teams, not over them.
Honesty
The tension between doing what's right in healthcare and business-as-usual is real. We name it and work through it.
Services
We work with funders, providers and health systems on all integrated elements of value-based care — contracting, measurement, pathways, protocols, systems and the teams that run them.
Designing and negotiating value-based contracts that work in practice — risk corridors, quality gates, and payment mechanics built for real provider–funder relationships.
Defining the outcomes that matter to patients, then building the measurement layer to track them honestly — clinical, functional and patient-reported (PROMs & PREMs).
Standardised clinical pathways and the systems to support and embed them. Less unwarranted variation, more reproducible outcomes — without turning medicine into a checklist.
Operating models that keep patients connected across providers, settings, tools and time. The plumbing of value-based care — built deliberately rather than bolted on.
Helping organisations stand up the clinical and operational teams that deliver value-based care — recruitment, role design, coaching, ways of working, and executive support.
Independent strategic counsel for healthcare executives currently weighing a move towards value-based care. From vendor identification to operating strategies and internal competencies. Plain reasoning, written down.
Translating clinical and business intent into system specifications, implementation guardrails and vendor selection — so the EMR/EHR, the analytics, and the workflow tools actually fit the model of care.
Clinician-led interpretation, second-look reviews and clinical sign-off on operational decisions — for moments when you need a senior clinical voice without an additional full time employee.
Approach
Change is hard. Teams are small, fragmented and likely "at capacity" already. Our skill is in making the work more workable: big picture thinking, small picture relevance, clear next steps, honest measurement, fewer slides.
Read the system as it is — pathways, protocols, incentives, data, teams, patients. No template assessments.
Build the contract, pathway, system or operating model that actually fits the context and delivers on the value-based care equation. Specific over generic.
Stay alongside the team through go-live and the messy middle. Measure, adjust, optimise and hand over with confidence.
Get in touch
Whether you're sketching a VBC pilot or untangling outcomes measurement at scale — we'd like to hear about it.
Based in
Johannesburg, South Africa 📧 info at corvalia dot health