Achieving the ultimate healthcare outcome for your practice: value-based care
The key questions to ask – and features to consider – to ensure your practice can achieve the promise of value-based care.
The key questions to ask – and features to consider – to ensure your practice can achieve the promise of value-based care.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The San Francisco-based startup's platform aids care coordinators to assess and identify both clinical and sociodemographic risk factors for chronic illnesses like diabetes, COPD, chronic kidney disease, depression and congestive heart failure.
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said it’s wrong to have ACOs that can only make profits but not risk any losses. “We want to put the accountability back into Accountable Care Organizations,” she said during a briefing with reporters.
Mercy ACO lacked a solid way to connect its data from disparate sources, so it worked with Innovaccer and its data platform to help solve the issue.
Since January 1, Walmart employees at 55 Walmart, Sam's Club and Walmart Distribution Center locations in the metro-Atlanta area have been able to choose the Emory Accountable Care Plan as their primary health plan.
On February 2, CMS said it has chosen to call off the Direct Decision Support Model. This follows a similar decision last year to cancel the Shared Decision Making Model.
A new study from JAMA Internal Medicine found hospitals participating in one or more value-based programs have lower readmission rates.
A number of the Pioneer ACOs dropped out of the program, so even the more “advanced” participants are not uniformly delivering the best possible results.
Healthcare in America is evolving rapidly and so the providers of care must evolve with it. Pay-for-performance is replacing fee-for-service, so provider reimbursements will be based on their compliance with pre-established quality benchmarks rather than just service delivery. Accountability and the concept of Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) are at the core of this emerging […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The recent focus of the government is slowly shifting towards HIEs and interoperable systems as EMR adoption continues to rise. Many health IT experts argue that while EMR may have been the core of the health IT movement initially, its importance lies in building the support pillars for a new system that extends far beyond […]