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RECORDED WEBINAR: Automation with Accountability: How ACOs can Scale Patient Engagement Without Burning Out Teams

March 19, 2026Garrett Schmitt

 Download Slides ACOs are under immense pressure to close more care gaps, hit TOC windows, and drive preventive care—yet most teams are already stretched thin. This webinar breaks down how to scale patient engagement responsibly, using automation that’s transparent, governed, and designed to support (not replace) care teams. In this session, we’ll unpack the…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Preventing Avoidable ED Visits: How Predictive Analytics Transforms Utilization Management in Value-Based Care

March 17, 2026Garrett Schmitt

 Download Slides Emergency department utilization is one of the most powerful cost accelerators in value-based care arrangements. For ACOs, Medicare Advantage organizations, and provider groups operating under downside risk, preventable ED visits can quickly erode shared savings and destabilize financial performance. The challenge is not simply managing ED use after it occurs- it is…

How AI-driven functional precision medicine unlocks personalized cancer therapy

March 16, 2026Garrett Schmitt

Despite decades of progress in oncology, ranging from molecular diagnostics to targeted therapies, cancer remains one of medicine’s most complex and costly challenges. While genomic sequencing and AI-assisted analytics have improved disease classification, biomarker identification, and the discovery of drugs that may help, most patients are still treated using standardized protocols driven by population-level data rather…

Why Thyme Care Succeeds Where Value-Based Care Has Fallen Short

March 13, 2026Garrett Schmitt

Key Takeaways Persistent underperformance of prior oncology VBC models reflects failure to measurably improve outcomes while lowering total cost, sustaining skepticism despite ongoing urgency to redesign care delivery. Population-based infrastructure leveraging claims, HIE feeds, onboarding assessments, ePROs, and predictive modeling enables risk stratification and earlier intervention to prevent avoidable ED use and admissions. Value-based care…

The Ambulatory Specialty Model: The Next Step Toward Engaging Specialists In Accountable Care

March 11, 2026Garrett Schmitt

From its inception, accountable care policy has centered on primary care. Accountable care organization (ACO) programs have been designed and built on the premise that primary care clinicians and groups should anchor population health. This strategy has rationale. Primary care plays a critical role in both preventive and chronic care management in ways that are…

HIMSS26: Embedding clinical intelligence for a successful Medicare Shared Savings Program

March 10, 2026Garrett Schmitt

LAS VEGAS – The Medicare Shared Savings Program has been one of the most successful programs established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve quality and save costs. The voluntary program was established through the Affordable Care Act 14 years ago as an alternative payment model that is the essence of value-based…

2025 Medicare FFS catheter billing anomalies and ACO implications | Milliman MedInsight

March 9, 2026Garrett Schmitt

While reviewing claims data patterns in quarter three (Q3) of 2025, Milliman observed a significant increase in paid amounts for claims billed under Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code A4352—intermittent urinary catheter; coudé (curved) tip, with or without coating (Teflon, silicone, silicone elastomeric, or hydrophilic, etc.), each—that deviates from historical trends and could have…

Value-based care practices shift the ‘center of gravity’ of healthcare to prevention and early recognition of disease, says Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., CEO of Risant Health

March 6, 2026Garrett Schmitt

In the third segment from an extensive video interview with Managed Health Executive, Jaewon Ryu, CEO of Risant Health, discusses the role of prevention and early detection in value-based care. In Ryu’s view, the role is definitional. “Earlier recognition and treatment of disease is what we’re talking about when we talk about value-based care,” says Ryu….

Will The New CMS ACO Model LEAD To Better Care For High-Need Medicare Beneficiaries?

March 6, 2026Garrett Schmitt

For decades, policy makers have struggled to improve care and control costs for medically complex and socially vulnerable populations, particularly individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Dual-eligible beneficiaries experience high rates of chronic illness, disability, and unmet social needs, and they account for a disproportionate share of Medicare and Medicaid spending. Despite sustained efforts to shift payment…

Value-Based Care Emerges as a Strategic Anchor in an Uncertain Regulatory Climate

March 4, 2026Garrett Schmitt

Behavioral health has entered a new era of accountability. Proof, measurements and improved outcomes are taking on renewed importance during a year that many anticipate will bring heightened scrutiny and uncertainty in the regulatory environment. But a focused pivot from growth to proof does not mean that 2026 will be a year of slowed or…

Around the nation: Optum launches new AI tool for value-based care

March 3, 2026Garrett Schmitt

Optum* is launching a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool for value-based care (VBC) called Value Connect, in today’s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Minnesota, and Texas.    Full Article

Podcast: Is Value-Based Payment Failing U.S. Healthcare?

February 27, 2026Garrett Schmitt

Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers welcomes Brown University’s Andrew Ryan to the pod to discuss his recent Forefront article that explores whether value-based payment and managed care can lead to addressing the core drivers of spending. Full Article

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