New Coalition Launches to Expand Direct Contracting
The Association for Direct Care launched a coalition focused on expanding direct contracting to lower healthcare costs.
Hospitals Are Facing New Price Transparency Requirements, But Will They Truly Help Patients Shop for Care?
Come January 1, CMS will begin enforcing new price transparency requirements for hospitals. Experts doubt that these regulations will do much to help patients shop for care, but they are optimistic that increasing the amount of publicly available pricing data will help tech companies develop tools that simplify pricing for patients.
Why Pharma Companies Should Look To Social Media For Better Patient Insight
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
6 ways direct contracting is opening the door to direct primary care
While we can’t pretend that Direct Contracting is going to solve all of our problems, it does provide consideration for Direct Primary Care (DPC) practices, through which physicians can operate outside today’s insurance-based payment model.
CMS’ Next Generation ACO Model to end this year
In a move that ACOs found "disappointing," CMS has declined to extend the Next Generation ACO Model beyond 2021. Though evaluations have found that the model did not generate net savings for Medicare, proponents argue that the program was successful.
In analyst call, Clover reveals it doesn’t have the customers it said it did during IPO
When it planned to go public through a SPAC merger, insurance startup Clover Health told investors that it already had 200,000 direct contracting lives under contract for 2021. But in new guidance shared on Monday, the company now plans to end the year just 70,000 to 100,000 covered lives from direct contracting.