Dubbed the CMS Primary Cares Initiative, the program aims to reduce administrative burden for providers, while incentivizing clinicians to spend more time with patients and focus on preventive care.
If you have a TV, phone or Internet connection in 2018, you’re aware that the longstanding pastimes of political posturing and legal wrangling remained as popular as ever. Sometime after we get done arguing about the border wall, we’ll certainly find time to renew our battles over the Affordable Care Act and the future of […]
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
At the MedCity CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia on July 11, experts from Harvard Business School, payer Highmark and tech company Integra Connect explored how their organizations are approaching the intersection of cancer and value-based care.
The Model Performance Period for BPCI Advanced, a new bundled payment model starts Oct. 1 and runs through 2023. It this will require improved variability management and a reduction in clinical variation across the continuum of provider services.
Value-based payments, cybersecurity and healthcare reform are among healthcare leaders' top-of-mind issues for next year, according to the HealthCare Executive Group's 2018 HCEG Top 10 list.
If and when rates rise again, the cost of debt service will be competing with healthcare and a couple other major components of the federal budget for ever scarcer dollars, Leavitt explained at HIMSS17 this week.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Perhaps only at something as large as the annual HIMSS conference can an entity with more than 1,400 employees emerge from "stealth" mode, but that's what Integra Connect is announcing Monday morning.