Aging is Soon to Be a Preventable Disease
For most of human history, cellular aging was treated as biologically fixed, an inevitable accumulation of damage with no meaningful pathway to reversal. That assumption is no longer tenable.
Reclaiming the Joy of Medicine: How Value-Based Care Can Restore Physician Purpose
All of us can see glaring issues with the healthcare system that need to be addressed — but system-level change is hard. The leap to VBC isn’t easy, but the results are undeniable.
The Power of Real World Data to Study Women’s Health at Scale
Veradigm examines key clinical trends, comorbidity profiles, and treatment trends across adolescence, reproductive years, and peri-/post-menopause. Download it today!
From Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care: Enhancing Outcomes in Nephrology
A systemic change from FFS to VBC would represent more than a payment model switch, but rather a holistic transition toward patient-centered healthcare that prioritizes outcomes over activity.
Zero-Sum Game: The Current Healthcare System Is Reaching a Breaking Point
It’s tragic that it takes a shooter, aggravated by his back pain and frustrated with the healthcare system, to spark a necessary conversation about healthcare.
A Guide for Specialty Practices Navigating a Future of Healthcare that Does Good and Feels Good
As the healthcare evolves toward service-based models, providers increasingly look to balance service delivery demands while keeping their core medical values without yielding to an overburdened system's pressures.
Rethinking Healthcare: Navigating the Uncomfortable Path of Value-Based Care
In aggregate, value based care has yet to produce the consistent, positive results that we seek. But VBC’s slow start is actually a reflection of the difficulty of transitioning away from our entrenched healthcare compensation system.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Report: Many Employers, Consumers Don’t Understand Value-based Care
Although many employers and consumers don't understand the difference between value-based care and fee-for-service, most are in favor of value-based care after being given the definition, a new survey found.
Report: MA Enrollees Are More Likely to be Socioeconomically Disadvantaged than Traditional Medicare
The average income of a traditional Medicare enrollee is $85,085, versus $76,720 for a Medicare Advantage enrollee, according to a whitepaper done in partnership between Harvard Medical School and software solutions company Inovalon.
Providers Need to Commit to VBC Sooner Rather Than Later, Experts Agree
Experts argued that value-based care is here to stay and will play a major role in the future of healthcare during MedCity's Invest conference in Chicago. A panel of four agreed that the success of value-based care depends on organizational commitment — it’s a quixotic mistake to think these alternative payment models can gain traction overnight.
VBC Won’t Save Safety Net Hospitals, Experts Say
A shift from fee-for-service payment models to value-based models is not an effective way to address the severe financial pressures that safety net hospitals are facing, experts argued at the HIMSS conference in Chicago. One called for a paradigmatic shift “away from cost savings and toward understanding where investments are needed.”
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Remote patient monitoring use is on the rise, but reimbursement needs to catch up
The reimbursement model for remote patient monitoring needs to evolve as it may be holding providers back from investing in these programs, according to panelists at the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference. Key issues with the structure as it stands now include the fact that there are too many gray areas that result in claims denials.
CMS changes to Stark Law appear largely positive, experts say
CMS has finalized changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law, also known as Stark Law. Healthcare law experts say that these changes will generally make it easier for hospitals and physicians to remain in compliance with the statute.
The three horizons of the value-based care continuum
During a presentation at the World Congress Integrated Delivery Systems Summit last week, NextGen Healthcare's Bruno Nardone took a closer look at today's value-based care environment.
Survey: 43 percent of physicians say they have the needed tools to succeed under value-based care
What does the future of value-based care look like, and how does technology tie in? A new survey from Quest Diagnostics and Inovalon takes a closer look.
Three things health systems must do to take on risk – and succeed
Everyone in the healthcare world is trying to figure out how to manage risk – whether that is something basic – like switching to online appointment scheduling – or something major – like moving a health system’s providers to value-based contracts. I spoke with Valence Health President Todd Stockard recently to understand what it takes […]