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    2025

VBC Newsstand 7/11/2025
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VBC Newsstand 7/11/2025

Featured articles:

    • VBC in 2025: What’s Now and What’s Next

    • From Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care: Enhancing Outcomes in Nephrology

    • CMMI Model Reports and Findings

    • Transparency in Coverage Final Rule

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VBC Newsstand 7/4/2025

Featured articles:

    • A decade of value-based care: Tammy Schaeffer, JD, RN

    • Multi-Payer VBC Strategy Is Essential for Cost Control, but Providers Must Get a Fair Deal

    • Outcomes for Hospitals Participating in More- and Less-Mature ACOs

    • The Dental Divide: Addressing The South’s Oral Health Crisis As A Health Equity Imperative

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VBC Newsstand 6/27/2025

Featured articles:

    • Value-based care could mean better access for Traditional Medicare patients, study finds

    • 3 quality measures leaders are eyeing for the 2nd half of 2025

    • Value-Based Care Calls for Putting Novel Therapies Closer to Patients

    • BHB VALUE: Winning with Simplicity — How a Unified Tech Stack Prepares You for Value-Based Care

    • Women PCPs Have Equal or Better Medicare Patient Outcomes Than Men PCPs in Value-Based Care Model

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VBC Newsstand 6/20/2025

Featured articles:

    • CMS Updates ACO REACH As Program Enters ‘Pivotal Phase’

    • Value-based care, independent physicians, lifestyle choices all part of MAHA

    • Fighting the Chronic Disease Crisis with AI and Value-Based Care

    • ‘Dramatic Increase’ in Physiatry as Nursing Homes Pursue Value-Based Care Goals

    • Albany Med, Honest Health partner on value-based care

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VBC Newsstand 6/13/2025

Featured articles:

    • A Strategic Guide for ACO Leaders: 3 Critical Considerations Before the August 1st CMS Deadline

    • Transforming Healthcare: Implementing and Advancing eCQMs

    • Is CMS going to wreck ACOs with bad math?

    • CMS outlines tweaks to ACO REACH for 2026 performance year

    • Understanding the Fundamentals of Accountable Care Organizations

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VBC Newsstand 6/6/2025

Featured articles:

  • A decade of value-based care: Mark McClellan, MD

  • The Pharmacist Role in Value-Based Care and on Multidisciplinary Teams: Eileen Peng, PharmD

  • How Community Health Centers Can Partner with Organizations to Adopt Value-Based Care

  • How Behavioral Health Providers Can Build Better Value-Based Care Infrastructure

  • Is ‘value-based care’ ill-defined?

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VBC Newsstand 5/30/2025

Featured articles:

  • Sticking to the ‘Status Quo’ Will Not Win the Value-Based Care Race

  • Value-Based Care Adoption is Slow Across Global Health Systems

  • It’s time to bring value-based care principles to hospice

  • CMMI’s New Strategy: What’s Changing for Providers?

  • Implementing Administrative Benchmarks In The Medicare Shared Savings Program: Opportunities And Challenges

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VBC Newsstand 5/23/2025

Featured articles:

  • How payers can drive value-based care forward

  • Value-based care expected to see revenue increases this year, survey finds

  • In Medicare Advantage value-based care, women PCPs outperform and outearn their male peers

  • Tech and Value-Based Care: How Leaders of Northbridge, Juniper, Anthem Are Pivoting for the Boomers

  • ‘It’s Getting Paid for Doing the Right Thing’: Rethinking Value-Based Care in the Behavioral Health-Medicaid Alliance

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VBC Newsstand 5/16/2025

Featured articles:

  • The Evolving Physician Advisor: From UM to Value-Based Care & AI

  • Navigating QPP Reporting in 2025: Finding the Best Path for Your ACO

  • A More Holistic Approach To Measurement For Value-Based Care

  • CMMI Announces Make America Healthy Again Strategy, Prioritizes Choice For Care Settings, Including In Homes

  • The ‘price’ of value-based care

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VBC Newsstand 5/9/2025

Featured articles:

  • Jefferson Health’s strategy to optimize value-based care

  • Value-based payment, oncology and primary care

  • How CMS’ Recent Capitation Rate Increase Could Accelerate Value-Based Care, MA in Senior Living

  • Long-Term Spending of Accountable Care Organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program

  • Maryland Stakeholders Express Hopes, Concerns About AHEAD Model

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VBC Newsstand 5/2/2025

Featured articles:

  • Value-Based Care Gets Real

  • Enhancing Value-Based Care with EHR Data

  • ACO REACH Falls Short In Serving Vulnerable Populations Compared To Medicare Overall

  • The secrets to success with bundled payments in healthcare

  • ACO REACH Misses Target In Serving High-Risk Groups

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VBC Newsstand 4/25/2025

Featured articles:

  • AMGA, physician group announce national collaboration to improve value-based care

  • ACOs’ Focus on Rooting Out Fraud Aligns With CMS Vision Under Oz

  • Why health systems are turning to VBC consultants

  • Why Tech Platforms Approved By Referral Partners Are Good Tools for VBC in Nursing Homes

  • FQHC-Focused ACO Continues to Grow

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VBC Newsstand 4/18/2025

Featured articles:

  • The case for value-based care in women’s health: A win-win in improving maternal care

  • Many CMMI models didn’t generate savings: report

  • Value-Based Care Requires Gradual Implementation, Not ‘Zero to 60’ Approach

  • “All I Do Is Win”: Why Beating Benchmarks Doesn’t Mean That ACOs Are Reducing Costs

  • Generative AI can save healthcare, but not without payment reform

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VBC Newsstand 4/11/2025

Featured articles:

  • 5 Value-Based Care Strategies to Control Patient Care Costs

  • Addressing Malnutrition Through Advances In Value-Based Care

  • Risant Health Fills Out Its Value-Based Care Team

  • Organizational Factors Associated With Variation in Primary Care Providers in ACOs

  • CMS Shakes Up the Innovation Center Model Landscape: What Comes Next?

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VBC Newsstand 4/4/2025

Featured articles:

  • Bridging Care Gaps With a Systemwide Value-Based Care Strategy

  • How Should Health Systems Discuss Value-Based Care with Patients?

  • Recent Medicaid Managed Care Policies And Safety Net Accountable Care

  • Beyond fee-for-service: How practice groups are evolving in the age of value-based care

  • The North Star of Behavioral Health: Aligning Payer, Provider Goals in Value-Based Care

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VBC Newsstand 3/28/2025

Featured articles:

  • How Policy Reforms And Interoperability Are Reshaping Value-Based Care

  • Accountable Care Organizations Still Play a Vital Role in Value-Based Care

  • Letting Patients Lead The Way To More Effective Value-Based Payment

  • Humana, Aledade expand value-based care to rural clinics, FQHCs

  • Navina raises $55M to expand AI for value-based care

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VBC Newsstand 3/21/2025

Featured articles:

  • What’s now and what’s next in value-based care

  • How Houston Methodist’s ACO Reduced Its End-of-Life Spending by Nearly 20%

  • CMMI cancels 4 payment models early

  • Contributor: The Complexity Concern in Value-Based Care

  • The Future of Value-Based Care During the Trump Administration

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VBC Newsstand 3/14/2025

Featured articles:

  • Integrating Specialists for Success in Value-Based Care

  • 3 Essentials to Cut Health Care Costs Without Cutting Patient Care

  • BrightSpring CEO: Home-Based Primary Care Holds Major Upside For ACO, Payer Strategies

  • How Can EHRs Support the Shift to Value-Based Care and Reduce Clinician Burnout?

  • Policy Strategies To Propel Community Health Centers Into Value-Based Payment

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VBC Newsstand 3/7/2025

Featured articles:

  • No More ‘Dabbling’: It’s Time to Embrace Value-Based Care

  • ASCs poised to win big in the value-based care revolution

  • Hospital Execs Share Infrastructure, Quality Measure Issues in Value-Based Care

  • Inside Value-Based Care Models Eyeing a Future Without Gaps in Care Between Nursing Homes, Other Settings

  • The Vibe at ViVE: Health Tech Leaders Share Insights from AI to Value-based Care

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VBC Newsstand 2/28/2025

Featured articles:

  • Black Book Research Unveils 2025’s Top-Rated Population Health & Value-Based Care Vendors: AI, Interoperability, and ROI Take Center Stage

  • Coding Compliance: Mitigating Risk In Medicare Risk Adjustment Programs

  • How Climate-Driven Disasters Could Reshape Health Care Quality Measures

  • Humana looks to deepen meaning of ‘value-based care’

  • Value-based payment models: Doctors describe the disconnect between theory and practice

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VBC Newsstand 2/21/2025

Featured articles:

  • Value-Based Care: One Priority Among Many

  • Curate Your Data to Tackle Cost of Care: Master These Basics 

  • How to build provider networks and contracts in specialty value-based care

  • Evernorth study: A look at the progress toward value-based care in behavioral health

  • SNF benchmarking study paints rosy picture for value-based care, I-SNPs this year 

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VBC Newsstand 2/14/2025

Featured articles:

  • AI and Value-Based Care Growth Igniting Fresh Urgency for Interoperability

  • Aledade Adds 500 New Primary Care Practices to Value-Based Care Network

  • Addressing The Burden Of Spine-Related Disorders Through Integrated Value-Based Care

  • Smart, sustainable growth in the era of Medicare Advantage — 4 takeaways

  • AI’s ability to transform value-based care

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VBC Newsstand 2/7/2025

Featured articles:

  • Unlocking Success in Value-Based Care: Why Focusing on Specialized Populations is Key

  • Connecting the Dots: How to Prep for Changes to the Facility Assessment and Quality Measures in 2025

  • 32% less hospitalizations, $11 billion saved from value-based care

  • Value-Based Care Simplifies Healthcare for Patients and Clinicians, New Report Finds

  • University Hospitals’ 90-10 flip on chronic disease care

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VBC Newsstand 1/31/2025

Featured articles:

  • MGMA’s perspective on CMS’s 2030 shift to value-based care

  • CMS Moves Closer to Accountable Care Goals with 2025 ACO Initiatives

  • Health systems ditch incrementalism in value-based care

  • Value-Based Care 2025: Providers Must Win the War on Costs

  • NAACOS Applauds Bipartisan House Bill on Value-Based Data Reporting

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VBC Newsstand 1/24/2025

Featured articles:

  • From challenge to change: Best practices for value-based care in physician practices

  • Key Strategies for Implementing Effective CDI Programs in ACOs

  • Late to APP Reporting? Untangle Your ACO’s Optimal Method

  • UnitedHealth Group CEO: Value-Based Care Could Offset Rising Provider, Drug Costs

  • FCA Enforcement in Value-Based Care Arrangements Heated Up in 2024 and Likely to Remain a Priority in 2025

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VBC Newsstand 1/17/2025

Featured articles:

  • Celebrating Ten Years in Value-Based Care: Reflections and Foresights

  • 5 Tips to Retain Great Physicians

  • Medicare ACOs In 2023: Large Savings With Increasing Value-Based Programmatic Competition

  • Value-Based Care a Driver of Palliative Care Investment

  • 24 Executive Healthcare AI Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2025

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VBC Newsstand 1/10/2025

Featured articles:

  • ACOs Saved Billions in 2023: Can They Sustain This Beyond 2025?

  • The Role of Coding and Billing Compliance in Reducing Errors and Optimizing Revenue in ACOs

  • Five Key Changes Driving Pharmacy’s Value-Based Care Evolution in 2025

  • Navigating Value-Based Care in 2025: Three Challenges Ahead

  • Climate Resilience And The Promise Of Value-Based Care

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VBC Newsstand 1/3/2025

Featured articles:

  • Trends 2025: Healthcare leaders are focusing on patient access, AI and Medicare Advantage

  • How AI adoption by hospitals and health systems can enable value-based care

  • Mental Health and Chronic Condition Care – 2025 Health IT Predictions

  • How the Contact Center Can Be a Driver of VBC Success

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2024

VBC Newsstand 12/27/2024
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VBC Newsstand 12/27/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Mastering the shift to value-based care: 3 strategies for organization-wide success
  • What We Measure Matters: Centering Lived Experience in Developing Behavioral Health Quality Measures
  • Enhancing Design And Implementation Of ACO REACH’s Equity-Focused And Beneficiary Engagement Design Elements
  • How Alignment with Sound Physicians’ ACO Improved Patient Care and Outcomes
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VBC Newsstand 12/20/2024

Featured Articles:

  • 2025 Value-Based Care: Will it Look Any Different?
  • The future of accountable care: How AI is redefining value-based health care
  • Assessing Provider Adoption Of Medicare Advanced Alternative Payment Models
  • Easier Said Than Done: Why Scaling Up Value-Based Care is So Hard (and What We Can Do About It)
  • Telemedicine’s Value Grows
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VBC Newsstand 12/13/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Navigating the ACO landscape: A guide for providers striving for value-based care
  • Understanding the Impact of Accurate HCC Coding on Medicare Risk Adjustment
  • Good news, bad news for physicians heading into 2025
  • Searching for the Policy-Relevant Treatment Effect in Medicare’s ACO Evaluations
  • How the healthcare industry can weather ongoing challenges
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VBC Newsstand 12/6/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Value-based care trends & predictions for 2025
  • CMS Announces Updates to Medicare Parts C & D Appeals Guidance Effective January 1, 2025
  • Healing the Healers: Using Value-Based Care Strategies to Mitigate Physician Burnout
  • Driving Innovation in Cancer Care: The Future of Value-Based Care in Oncology
  • DaVita CMO on the Impact of Value-Based Models on Kidney Care
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VBC Newsstand 11/29/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Achieving Value-Based Care Through the Payvider Model
  • Value-Based Care Is a Four Layer Cake — Why Do We Only Focus on The Icing?
  • From silos to synergy: Uniting health plan and EHR insights to drive success in value-based care
  • Navigating risk and revenue growth: A CFO’s guide to value-based contracts
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VBC Newsstand 11/22/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Report: Practices in Two-Sided Risk Drove Savings in Oncology Care Model
  • Navigating the CMS 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
  • Advancing Equitable Access to Elevate Value-Based Cancer Care
  • ‘Friction,’ risks limit nursing home value-based participation, but CMS remains committed to the transition
  • Top 5 Traits of High-Performing ACOs— and 5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid
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VBC Newsstand 11/15/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Helping make value-based care work for primary care
  • Health Care Leaders Highlight Collaborative, Patient-Focused Strategies for Advancing Value-Based Care
  • Providence’s ACO saved Medicare $137M in 1 year — here’s how
  • CVS Health Exec: Payers Need to Stop Making Behavioral Health Providers Jump Through Hoops In Order to Participate in Value-Based Care
  • The 2025 CMS PFS Final Rule: The Five-Pronged Strategy Towards Comprehensive Accountable Care
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VBC Newsstand 11/8/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Can the ACO Primary Care Flex Model help link physical and mental healthcare?
  • Farzad Mostashari, M.D.: The MSSP Is Absolutely Proving Itself
  • Why Accurate Provider Data Can No Longer Be Overlooked in Value-Based Care
  • How Hospices Can Leverage Palliative Care to ‘Stay Relevant’ in Value-Based Care
  • Your ACO May Already Be Late For APP Reporting. Here’s How To Catch Up!
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VBC Newsstand 11/1/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Good ACO News, Coming at a Key Moment
  • Medicare Shared Savings Program Continues to Deliver Meaningful Savings and High-Quality Health Care
  • Using connected care tools to further value-based care goals
  • For these health systems, value-based care means putting patients first
  • Why Your Final MIPS Score Might Be Different from What You Expected – and What You Can Do About It
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VBC Newsstand 10/25/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Can Primary Care Thrive Outside of Traditional Healthcare Players?
  • Health Care Leaders Push Forward on Value-Based Care Amid Challenges
  • Value-Based Care is Growing – Is Your Data Ready?
  • Medicaid ACOs have not yet improved care for kids with asthma, study says
  • Industry Voices—9 strategies for integrating specialists into accountable care
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VBC Newsstand 10/18/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Inaccurate Provider Data Hinders Value-based Care, But it Doesn’t Have To
  • Q&A: How Pharmacists Stand in the Gap for Value-Based Care
  • Putting a Spotlight on Innovation, Collaboration in Specialty Value-Based Care
  • The Catalyst Driving Success in Value-Based Care
  • Lessons from the NAACOS 2024 Fall Conference
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VBC Newsstand 10/11/2024

Featured Articles:

  • SDOH, tech key to advancing value-based care, says UHG
  • From EDI to FHIR: The Evolution of Healthcare Interoperability
  • Opportunities for innovators in the next wave of value-based care
  • Value-Based Care Continues to Shape Senior Living Operators’ Growth Plans
  • The Power of “Techquity”: How Telehealth Can Help Promote Health Equity
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VBC Newsstand 10/4/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Patient Data: The Essential Metrics Every ACO Should Track
  • The Role of Medical Coding in Value-Based Care
  • What Is the Potential for Value-Based Care in Dentistry?
  • Technology Will Accelerate The Shift To Proactive, Value-Based Care
  • New Report Highlights Data-Driven Success Strategies for ACOs
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VBC Newsstand 9/27/2024

Featured Articles:

  • CMMI’s Latest Payment Models Address Health Disparities, but Challenges Remain
  • Improvement Science And Value-Based Payment Models
  • CMS holds accountable care organizations harmless for ‘highly suspect’ Medicare billing
  • Value-based care could improve U.S. health care quality, but may not decrease administrative complexity, experts say
  • The biggest barrier to value-based success, per 1 exec
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VBC Newsstand 9/20/2024

Featured Articles:

  • How Palliative Care-ACO Partnerships Could Reduce Health Disparities
  • Bringing PREMs and PROMs Into Value-Based Care
  • CMMI Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model Applications Due Soon
  • Expanding pharmacy’s role in value-based care
  • 44 ACOs to know | 2024
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VBC Newsstand 9/13/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Scaling Value-Based Care: Addressing Systemic Issues With Innovative Payer-Provider Collaboration
  • Centering The Patient in Value-Based Care Benefits
  • Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations may increase care engagement and quality among pregnant and postpartum patients
  • The ‘Holy Grail’ of Palliative Care Payment Through ACOs
  • Why ACOs and Other Risk-Bearing Providers Must Prioritize Contract Management
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VBC Newsstand 9/6/2024

Featured Articles:

  • One Medical Group’s Experience with AI in the Value-Based Context
  • Advancing Health Equity in Cardiovascular Care: A New Frontier
  • Value-based payment contracts come with dozens of quality measures
  • CMS needs a better entry point for nursing home value-based care. Researchers say I-SNPs hold major potential
  • Hospice Executives: Value-Based Care, Regulation Will Shape Hospices’ Future
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VBC Newsstand 8/30/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Increasing Health Equity Through Accessibility and Education
  • Value-Based Care Needs Only Five Quality Measures
  • Researchers: ACOs Have Not Meaningfully Boosted Socially Vulnerable Patients
  • Geisinger Health System: A Bellwether for Value-Based Care
  • Improving Participation In Value-Based Care—The CMS Innovation Center’s Data-Sharing Strategy Initiative
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VBC Newsstand 8/23/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Leveraging SDOH Coding in Accountable Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach
  • ACO REACH changes more negative than positive, says participant
  • To Unlock ACO Access To Real Savings, Start With Trusted Data
  • Pharmacists Can Play a Pivotal Role in Providing Value-Based Care
  • Is End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model Moving the Needle?
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VBC Newsstand 8/16/2024

Featured Articles:

  • The Power of Connection: How Clinical Data Registries, ACOs, and Payers Can Collaborate for Value-Based Care
  • Driving Value-Based Payment Reform Through the Community Oncology Lens
  • Embracing SaaS: Why Healthcare Organizations Should Transition from On-Premise Solutions
  • The case for transitioning to value-based care
  • Bringing value-based care to the youngest patients
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VBC Newsstand 8/9/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Closing The Gap In Value-Based Care: Lessons From Provider-Led ACO Experience
  • How Data and Technology Are Strengthening the Relationships Between Accountable Care Organizations and Skilled Nursing Facilities
  • How CMS Proposed ACO Advance Payment Policies Could Impact Palliative Care
  • NAACOS worries new ACO REACH changes could force exits
  • Three Important Updates Impacting ACA Compliance
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VBC Newsstand 8/2/2024

Featured Articles:

  • 5 Ways Your ACO Should Leverage Data For Cost Control
  • Value-based care is the antidote to health inequities, intractable costs
  • Electronic Quality Reporting Window Closing on MSSP ACOs: Time for Action Is Now
  • Top Tips for Maintaining Solid Nursing Home Star Ratings Amid MDS Changes, CMS’ Bid to Track More Quality Measures
  • Deepening Ties for Healthcare Quality
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VBC Newsstand 7/26/2024

Featured Articles:

  • CMS and Healthcare Executives Discuss APCM Under Physician Fee Schedule
  • Why the Case for Value-Based Behavioral Health Care Is Easier in Acute Settings
  • Accountable care organizations need better engagement with patients
  • Five Steps Managed Care Orgs Can Take Now to Improve Member Engagement
  • CMS Proposals for Healthcare Quality Reporting in 2025 and Beyond
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VBC Newsstand 7/19/2024

Featured Articles:

  • CMS Presses For Accountable Care, Better Quality Measurement For Physicians And ACOs In New Proposed Rule
  • Why Primary Care Practitioners Aren’t Joining Value-Based Payment Models: Reasons and Potential Solutions
  • Best Practices for Implementing AI Into Value-Based Care
  • The Opportunity for Palliative Care in ACO Flex
  • The Rise of Value-Based Specialty Care
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VBC Newsstand 7/12/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Transforming the provider-payer relationship from adversarial to collaborative through value-based care
  • Capitation Technology Drives Financial Viability in Value-Based Care Models
  • ‘The Safe Discharge’: Challenges Behind Balancing Care and Cost in Value-Based Care at Nursing Homes
  • Future-Proofing Risk Adjustment: 3 Essential Changes to Embrace Today
  • Navigating the Landscape of Governmental Coding Audits: A Comprehensive Guide
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VBC Newsstand 7/5/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Strategies For Right Now To Control Patient Care Costs
  • CMS Proposes Rule to Address Suspected Fraud Impacting ACOs
  • CMS Needs to Do a Better Job With Value-Based Care, Experts Tell House Panel
  • Arcadia & CareJourney Merge to Take Value-Based Care Analytics to Another Level
  • Investing in the Right Thing: How Simplified, Value-Based Care Moves Health Upstream
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VBC Newsstand 6/28/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Can Providers Scale Value-Based Care Sustainably?
  • HHS finalizes info blocking disincentives for hospitals, clinician groups and ACOs
  • Risks of delaying your value-based care journey – what you need to know now
  • CCM as a Glidepath into Value-based Care
  • Unraveling the Financial Ramifications of MSSP ACO Reporting
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VBC Newsstand 6/21/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Simplifying value-based care is paramount to a successful transition
  • U.S. House Members Press CMMI’s Fowler on Lack of Cost Savings
  • Five Things to Know About Medicare Site-Neutral Payment Reforms
  • How the Call Center Can Be a Driver for Value-Based Care
  • 5 Key Takeaways from AHIP 2024
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VBC Newsstand 6/14/2024

Featured Articles:

  • 3 ways value-based care is transforming American healthcare
  • Humana Issues New Brief on Value-Based Care for Kidney Disease
  • Experts Share Health Equity Advances in Value-Based Care at CMS Conference
  • NQF Study: Improvement on Two Quality Measures Could Save 144,000 Lives
  • 5 biggest barriers when moving to value-based care
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VBC Newsstand 6/7/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Advancing Health Equity Through Value-Based Care: CMS Innovation Center Update
  • CMMI Refines and Extends Enhancing Oncology Model
  • ACOs Need A Strategic Map For Cost Control
  • Who is leaning into value-based care?
  • Value-based care is the future of health care, but we need leadership to get there
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VBC Newsstand 5/31/2024

Featured Articles:

  • The Value-based Care Throughline to Healthcare Quality and Safety
  • For Rural ACOs, New Primary Care Model From CMS Offers Much-Needed Financial Help
  • 2022 QPP Experience Report: Address 3 Key Findings Now To Avoid Future Penalties
  • What is TEFCA?
  • Does physician-hospital integration reduce ACO cost?
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VBC Newsstand 5/24/2024

Featured Articles:

  • APG’s Susan Dentzer: We’ve Got to Inspire PCPs Forward Into Value-Based Care
  • How Value-Based Care Models Are Impacting Billing Practices
  • Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation Should Test An Alternative Payment Model For Hospital Nursing
  • JAMA: A Wider Adoption of Value-Based Care at Nursing Homes Is Stymied by Operational, Financial Challenges
  • Mental health inequities cost $477B annually, and could reach trillions
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VBC Newsstand 5/17/2024

Featured Articles:

  • LLMs in Healthcare at Scale – the promise, the reality, the cost, and the path forward
  • EHR Association Makes Recommendations on SDOH Data Capture
  • Senators Whitehouse, Cassidy propose bipartisan primary care payment reform, seek industry feedback
  • Building a Health Equity Focus into Value-Based Payment Design: Approaches for Medicaid Payers
  • TEAM Model: Hospitals in the Driver’s Seat, Nursing Homes as ‘Collaborators’ in Latest Bundled Payment Initiative
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/10/2024

Featured Articles:

  • The Role Of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations In Maternal Health
  • AI-driven prior authorizations: an opportunity for advancing health equity
  • Navigating the Transition to Value-Based Care: Addressing Fears and Embracing Risk in ACO REACH
  • CareFirst, Children’s National Hospital Develop Value-Based Care Alliance
  • Three things to know about CMS’s approach to behavioral health in 2024
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/3/2024

Featured Articles:

  • How ACOs Can Harness AI’s Transformative Potential
  • ACOs seek to remove “anomalous” spending from financial benchmark calculations
  • Can ACOs Flex While Supporting Specialty Care?
  • ‘Like peering through fog without a compass’: Value-based care’s future in orthopedics
  • Choosing the Right QPP Reporting Method for MSSP ACOs in 2025
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/26/2024

Featured Articles:

  • CMMI’s Innovations in Behavioral Health: Promoting Physical and Mental Well-being
  • Moving beyond financial incentives to engage specialists in ACOs
  • Expanded Telehealth Access: Powerful Medicare Rule Changes Impact Access, Health Equity and Risk Scores
  • Patient Engagement Is Essential for Achieving the Goals of Value-Based Care
  • 7 Tips for making the most of value-based care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/19/2024

Featured Articles:

  • CMS to Test Mandatory 5-Year Episode-Based Alternative Payment Model
  • Understanding the ACO Opportunity For Hospices
  • ACOs led by independent physicians save Medicare ‘substantially’ more money, CBO says
  • Value-based care adoption is a journey, not a destination. And the map you follow can make all the difference
  • Best practices, legislative priorities and SNFs: 4 key takeaways from the NAACOS spring conference
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/12/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Why contract management is crucial for ACOs, risk-bearing providers in VBC
  • Future Bundled Payment Models Need To Engage Physician Group Practices
  • Health care organizations collaborate on best practices for value-based care
  • Navigating the ACO landscape: A guide for providers striving for value-based care
  • RISE National 2024: What We Learned
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/5/2024

Featured Articles:

  • …Why Hasn’t Value-Based Care Delivered on Its Promise at Scale?
  • The CMS Innovation Center’s Strategy To Support Person-Centered, Value-Based Specialty Care: 2024 Update
  • AI can help providers get better outcomes in value-based care models
  • ValueH Launches TXAACOs to Drive Value-Based Care Collaboration in Texas
  • Hospice’s Outlook in Value-Based Care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/29/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Industry Voices—Strengthening long-term care providers’ role in value-based care
  • The Importance of Interoperability in Medical Record Retrieval
  • Cautious optimism: The future of generative AI in health care
  • Health system C-suites eye value-based care roles
  • How extending virtual options can drive value-based care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/22/2024

Featured Articles:

  • CMS unveils person-centered primary care model but excludes high-revenue ACOs
  • The Aftermath of the Change Healthcare Cyberattack: A Call to Action for Health Plans
  • Update On The Medicare Value-Based Care Strategy: Alignment, Growth, Equity
  • CMS’ ACO Primary Care Flex Model Could Offer Home-Based Care Providers Risk-Based Opportunity
  • The burnout paradox: How addressing SDOH can reduce provider stress
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/15/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Aligning Accountable Care Models With The Goal Of Improving Population Health
  • Nursing Burnout and Costs: Reflecting on Common Drivers of Hospital Financial Woes
  • Takeaways from attaining health equity through coordination
  • New CMMI Innovation Models Support Digitally Enabled Care
  • Why health care providers and facilities need to transition to value-based care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/8/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Key Value-Based Care Developments to Watch in 2024
  • The value of change: Challenges and strategies transitioning to value-based care
  • Enabling Better Integration For Dually Eligible Participants In Medicare Value-Based Care Models
  • 3 Ways Your ACO Can Convert APP Reporting Data Into Higher Savings
  • Value-Based Care Capabilities Already Becoming ‘Table Stakes’ For Home-Based Care Providers
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/1/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Federally Qualified Health Centers Can Make the Switch to Value-Based Payment, But Need Assistance
  • The Cost of Chronic Wounds
  • ViVE 2024: Optum Health CEO talks cyberattack, what’s next for value-based care
  • Chapters Health System CEO On Prioritizing Value-Based Care Initiatives In The Home
  • CareAllies Dominates 2024 Black Book Survey With 7th Consecutive Top Rating as Value-Based Care Advisors
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/23/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Value-Based Payment Models Can Improve Appropriate And Equitable Use Of Prescription Drugs
  • ACOs want increased participation of long-term and post-acute care providers
  • SUD Treatment Providers Embrace Alternative Payment Models, Ditch Fee-For-Service
  • Inside Steps CMS Could Take to Increase Nursing Home Participation in ACOs
  • Contract Management in a Value-Based Care Environment
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/16/2024

Featured Articles:

  • ‘A giant unknown’: What the alleged $2B Medicare catheter fraud scheme means for ACOs
  • Toward Maternity Care APMs That Improve Outcomes And Equity
  • Let’s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care
  • From Buzzword to Action: Addressing SDOH to Advance Health Equity
  • New year brings new value-based care opportunities
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/9/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Re-envisioning the Role of Medical Coding in a Value-Driven Healthcare Landscape
  • Elevating Healthcare Through Risk Stratification: Lessons from North Carolina’s Value-Based Initiatives
  • Why healthcare LLMs should address clinical quality measures
  • Contributor: Navigating Health Equity in 2024: The Evolution of Accountability, Part 1
  • Medical Home Network Partners With 17 FQHCs on MSSP ACO
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/2/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Novel Approaches Are Essential for Enabling Patient-First Outcomes in Value Based Care Models
  • ACOs to receive $20M in advance investment payments
  • CVS and Wexner Medical Center collaborate on ACO
  • The business case for health equity
  • Medicare ACO participation grows in 2024: CMS
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/26/2024

Featured Articles:

  • What Are the Challenges in Moving Along Value-Based Care in Rural Communities?
  • New CMMI model integrates physical and behavioral health
  • What Drove Success for ACO REACH’s Highest Performing ACOs in 2022?
  • How value-based care can address health inequities
  • Tennessee IPA Leader Explains Importance of Value-Based Care Partner
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/19/2024

Featured Articles:

  • Generative AI Identifies Social Determinants of Health from Doctor’s Notes
  • Top 10 Trends in Digital Health Engagement
  • Aiming to overcome challenges in moving to value-based care
  • Stay Ahead in 2024: A Guide to the Key Trends That Will Shape the Healthcare Provider Landscape in the Coming Year
  • Leveraging Price Transparency Data for Provider Organizations
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/12/2024

Featured Articles:

  • 8 Trends Among Top-Performing MSSP ACOs in 2022
  • Generative AI IDs social determinants in EHR notes: Mass General Brigham
  • Health Equity Depends on Pragmatic Tech for Healthcare’s Digital Have-Nots
  • CMS Approves New York’s Medicaid Waiver to Address SDOH
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/5/2024

Featured Articles:

  • How specialty practices can succeed in MIPS and value-based care
  • Building trust, examining data, and getting started: Leaders offer guidance on health equity
  • Health Equity – 2024 Health IT Predictions
  • Rethinking Healthcare: Navigating the Uncomfortable Path of Value-Based Care
Full Issue

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VBC Newsstand 12/29/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Payment integrity in the age of AI and value-based care
  • Startup Guidehealth buys Arcadia’s value-based care division, plans to build out predictive, gen AI tech
  • Next Steps For Engaging Specialty Care In ACO Models
  • FQHCs Shine in Value-Based Care: MHN Partners Achieve $10M Savings and Perfect Quality Score
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 12/22/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How Corporate Healthcare is Leading on Value-Based Care
  • Deloitte: Improving health equity in 2024 is a top-10 goal for most execs
  • Engaging Specialists In Accountable Care: Tailoring Payment Models Based On Specialties And Practice Contexts
  • Exclusive: Researchers warn AI could add billions to U.S. racial wealth gap
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 12/15/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Report: AI, value-based care are growing sectors in digital health but lack large-scale adoption
  • How Your ACO Can Optimize APP Reporting Using Medicare CQMs
  • To improve health equity, ‘look at your own data’
  • Humana, Optum Health Execs Describe Building Health Equity Infrastructure
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 12/8/2023

Featured Articles:

  • 2024 Outlook for Health Equity: Health equity leaders may play an increasingly critical role
  • How Rising Value-Based Care Tides Can (But Don’t Necessarily) Lift All Patients
  • CVS’ plan to catch Aetna up to its value-based care competitors
  • Clover Health will exit the ACO REACH program as it focuses on profitability
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 12/1/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Here are the steps executives should take to build out a successful health equity strategy
  • Healthcare payment models are evolving: 5 key capabilities providers need to ace the shift to value-based care
  • Top Earning ACOs Deliver Keys to Success
  • Benefits of blending population health and hyper-local health barrier strategies to address SDOH
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 11/24/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Why It’s So Tough to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Care
  • CMS releases playbook for social determinants of health
  • Medicare ACOs’ Approach to Mental Health Treatment Found Lacking
  • From Inequality to Empowerment: The Role of Automation Technologies in Healthcare
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 11/17/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Value-Based Care Benefits Patients and Physicians, New Report Shows
  • Health systems redesign value-based care
  • 5 Tips For A Win-Win Collaboration Between ACOs And Specialists
  • Consumers’ perceptions of their health-related social needs
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 11/10/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Why Physicians in ACOs Are Happier With Their Compensation
  • ACOs Prepare for eCQM Quality Reporting
  • A potential snag in the value-based care shift
  • Caregiver Support a ‘Significant’ Priority in CMMI Models, VBID
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 11/3/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How Can APM Participants Better Engage Community-Based Organizations?
  • Information blocking could affect provider payment, MIPS and MSSP participation
  • Collaboration Is Key to Execute Value-Based Care for Patients With Cancer
  • Five Steps To A Maternity Value-Based Payment Demonstration That Advances Racial Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 10/27/2023

Featured Articles:

  • To Advance Health Equity For Patients With Limited English Proficiency, Go Beyond Interpreter Services
  • Investors Foresee Cost of Care Attribution, Payer Landscape As Thorniest Issues for Behavioral Health Value-Based Care
  • Family Physicians with Value-Based Payment Models Relieve Burnout
  • Three quarters of ACOs in direct contracting model earned savings
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 10/20/2023

Featured Articles:

  • The mental health crisis among doctors is a problem for patients
  • Broken Alignment Between Physicians, Nursing Homes Must Improve for Value-Based Care Era
  • A Social ACO For Medicaid Managed Care
  • Health care organizations urge Congress to continue APM incentives
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 10/13/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Take the anxiety out of end-of-year, value-based care gap closure
  • ‘An Economic Incentive to Care’: Improving Behavioral Health Equity Boosts Bottom Lines
  • Improving patient safety requires a commitment to health equity
  • How to prepare for ACOs’ mandatory shift to eCQM reporting
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 10/6/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Making The Promise Of Value-Based Care Meaningful To Consumers
  • Medicaid Value-Based Payment Reform Linked to Reduced Mental Health ER Visits
  • Will Value-Based Care Finally Fix EHRs Too?
  • CMMI increased federal spending by $5.4B during its first decade, report finds
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 9/29/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Payers, providers are cautiously optimistic about their value-based care efforts. Here’s how their sentiments differ
  • Building a Palliative Care-Focused ACO
  • Chatbot Care Managers? Why ACOs Should Be Cautious in AI Adoption
  • Why Interoperability is the Next Critical Consideration for Virtual Care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 9/22/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Alleviate end-of-year, value-based care gap closure anxiety
  • The SDOH Reality Check: Coding, Claims and Value-Based Care
  • CMMI teases new behavioral, maternal health models launching this year
  • 5 challenges of chart chasing
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 9/15/2023

Featured Articles:

  • New CMMI Model Supports Health Equity in States, Shifts Care to the Community
  • Risk for Reward: Two-Sided Risk is Crucial to Win in Value
  • Better data exchange is key to improving patient health outcomes
  • Patient engagement and value-based care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 9/8/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Two Value-Based Care Initiatives That Could Shift the Alternative Payment Model Landscape
  • The essence of VBC lies in data-driven decision-making
  • New FDA program incentivizes drugmakers to invest in quality measures
  • How Patient-Centered Communication Can Address Maternal Health Inequities
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 9/1/2023

Featured Articles:

  • The Importance of Continuous Iteration in Health Equity Plans for REACH ACOs
  • How technology is speeding the shift to value-based care
  • AHA Calls for Easier On-Ramp for Bundled Payments, Episode-Based Payments
  • CMS Announces MSSP Savings from 2022
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 8/25/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Most Americans support value-based care but prefer other terms, research finds
  • How Delivery System Leaders Are Linking Prevention, Reimbursement, and Value-Based Care
  • Health systems get serious about value-based care
  • How HIE Tools Can Bridge the SDOH Data Interoperability Gap
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 8/18/2023

Featured Articles:

  • CMS tweaks ACO REACH to stabilize model
  • Barriers to moving to value-based care
  • Three Tips For Choosing Your APP Reporting Approach
  • Patient Engagement Is Key to the Success of Value-Based Care Programs
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 8/11/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Top Data Analytics Tools for Population Health Management
  • How Value-Based Care Could Change a Hospice Organization’s Culture
  • Success in value-based care requires robust patient engagement
  • How patient-centered communication can address maternal health inequities
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 8/4/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Investments Are Needed to Implement Value-Based Care in Pediatrics
  • North Carolina’s Bipartisan Path To Medicaid Expansion: The Role Of Accountable Care
  • Value in Health Care Act of 2023 Introduced to Congress to Reinforce Value-Based Care
  • The 2024 CMS PFS Proposed Rule: 7 Attempts To Balance Participation Goals With Value
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 7/28/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Retail Giants Vs. Health Systems: Fight Will Come Down To ‘Systemness’
  • Common Utilization Measures That Impact Value-Based Care Efforts
  • Value-Based Care: Operational Context Matters
  • How Integrated Bundles Drive High Value Specialty Care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 7/21/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Integrating behavioral health and primary care: keys to success in value-based care
  • How a 78-year-old legacy paved the way for healthcare disruptors
  • How Payers Can Identify Providers for High-Performing Networks
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 7/14/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How retail acquisitions will accelerate adoption of value-based care
  • Hospitals with Health Equity Factors Face Value-Based Penalties
  • How ACOs Are Integrating Behavioral Health Services
  • How Value-Based Payment Can Improve Drug Spending, Utilization, and Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 7/7/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How Long-Term Health Plan Enrollment Supports Value-Based Care
  • Medicare Advantage Bundled Payment Model Tied to Less Skilled Nursing Facility Use
  • Chronic Kidney Disease: The Silent Epidemic of the United States
  • Making the most of value-based care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/30/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Top Three Reasons Why AI is Critical for Value-Based Care
  • CMMI Analysis: Palliative Care Reduces Medicare Costs, Improve Patient Satisfaction
  • MACRA Gets Mixed Reviews at House Hearing
  • A New Approach to Value-Based Care: Diagnostically Connecting Data and Diagnoses
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/23/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How Value-Based Purchasing Program Design Influences Outcomes
  • Advance Care Planning in Value-Based Care
  • In Value-Based Oncology Care, Who Decides When Less Is More?
  • Don’t Fall For Magical Thinking In APP Reporting
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/16/2023

Featured Articles:

  • CMS Primary Care Model Provides Value-Based Path for Practices
  • The Importance of Medicaid Data To Improve Diversity in Clinical Trials
  • 4 strategies to reach a 5-star CMS rating
  • Policy Design Tools For Achieving Equity Through Value-Based Payment, Part 2
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/9/2023

Featured Articles:

  • ACO sign-ups for 2024 are underway. Policy changes have helped, but more work is needed, experts say
  • Accelerating the shift to value-based care in LTC settings
  • 5 ways patient engagement can improve outcomes
  • Policy Design Tools For Achieving Equity Through Value-Based Payment, Part 1
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/2/2023

Featured Articles:

  • The Role of Telehealth in Value-Based Care
  • CVS Health’s Value-Based Care Strategy Relies Heavily On Home-Based Care
  • Keys to value-based care: PCPs, technology innovation, SDOH and health equity
  • Health Inequity Has Been Reduced to a ‘Checklist of Unmet Social Needs,’ Exec Says
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/26/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Value-based care and the fight against burnout
  • Study: Navigation Support Can Help Improve ACO Patient Outcomes
  • CMMI Describes Progress on Addressing Health Equity
  • How AI May Help – And Hurt – Your ACO
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/19/2023

Featured Articles:

  • What Kaiser’s Acquisition of Geisinger Means for Value-Based Care
  • Health Equity Gap: Why Cybersecurity Should Be A Priority
  • Increasing Specialty Care Emphasis in Value-Based Care Strategies to Improve Future Outlooks for Health Plans
  • Primary Care Doctors Need Help to Achieve Health Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/12/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Poor Healthcare Technology Experiences Erode Consumer Trust. AI Can Repair Relationships.
  • As Workforce Shortages Intensify, CMS’ Value-based Care Ambitions Hang in the Balance
  • Nine Health Care Megatrends, Part 1: System And Payment Reform
  • How data can save value-based care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/5/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Interoperability a Key Factor in Referral Decisions for Post-Acute Care
  • The High Costs Of Ignoring Health Inequities
  • Medicare Advantage Rate Announcement: What Stayed, What Changed, and How Will It Impact Payers and Plans?
  • Three Data-Driven Approaches To Engage Specialists In ACOs
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/28/2023

Featured Articles:

  • WHO releases the largest global collection of health inequality data
  • What’s moving the needle toward value-based care?
  • Federal Judge’s Ruling Throws Preventive Care Access Into Question
  • We Need to Work Across Sectors to Advance Health Equity, Global Health Leaders Say
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/21/2023

Featured Articles:

  • When will the ER catch up with value-based care?
  • Private Equity in Healthcare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Deriving Actionable Insights From Imperfect Price Transparency Data
  • Is Health Equity Feeling Further Out of Reach? 4 Ways Digital Health Solutions Can Bring You Closer
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/14/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How CMMI Value-Based Care Models Have Impacted Costs, Quality
  • What Can We Learn From Medicaid About Making ACOs Equitable?
  • Community Health Workers: Key Players in Advancing Value-Based Care
  • Creating an Enabling Environment for Specialty Alternative Payment Models: A Potential Role for Philanthropy
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/7/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How CMMI Value-Based Care Models Have Impacted Costs, Quality
  • How Value-Based Care Could Transform Serious Mental Illness Treatment
  • It’s All About Relationships: Driving Health Equity by Prioritizing Connections
  • Measuring And Addressing Nutrition Security To Achieve Health And Health Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/31/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Promote ACO Success Under Value-Based Payment With These 5 Data Sources
  • Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action
  • How Congress Can Strengthen Primary Care Through Medicare Payment Reform
  • Empowering Patients to Choose Emergency Department Alternatives
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/24/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Food Security: Key Dimensions of the Social Determinant of Health
  • Hospital at home and health equity: Aiming to close disparities
  • Medicare Advantage Advance Notice: Who Will be Impacted, and How?
  • Mastering Seasonal Scheduling to Achieve Higher Quality Outcomes
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/17/2023

Featured Articles:

  • How Medicaid Managed Care Orgs Can Better Invest in SDOH Interventions
  • The Return to Normal: Medicaid Redetermination Edition
  • MSSP VS ACO REACH: Five Considerations for Legal Counsel
  • Why Disney shifted to a value-based care model for its 77,000 Florida employees
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/10/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Leveraging Primary Care Population-Based Payments In Medicaid To Advance Health Equity
  • Amplify Your APP Payoff: Boost Quality And Costs With 3 Essential Data Types
  • Health Equity Framework for Medicare Organizations
  • The Importance of Care Coordination for Chronic Disease Management
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/3/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Value-Based Care And A Path To Achieve Comprehensive Care In The Safety-Net
  • ONC Toolkit Outlines Foundational Elements of SDOH Information Exchange
  • Telehealth trends in 2023: Virtual-first, health equity and more
  • The Center for Health Affairs Introduces SDOH Innovation Hub
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/24/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Overcoming 5 Leading Obstacles to Achieving Racial Health Equity
  • Medicare Advantage Advance Notice: An Overview of the High-Impact Proposed Changes
  • ACO Benchmarks Based On Area Deprivation Index Mask Inequities
  • Healthcare Crash? Where is Houston?
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/17/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Tipping point is in sight: Value-based care is driving meaningful financial results
  • Patient Engagement Is Once Again Top Of Mind. What’s Different This Time?
  • Multi-million dollar opportunities (and risks) with PY 2024 decisions
  • CMMI releases three new models aimed at lower generic, novel drug costs
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/10/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Industry Voices—To pursue health equity, start with your own employees
  • Value-Based Care: What It Is, and Why It’s Needed
  • Seniors’ Mental Health and SDOH – A Family Physician’s View
  • Long-Term Care ACOs Present an Opportunity for the Most Complex Populations
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/3/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Considering Disability in Social Determinants of Health Referrals
  • Three Lies And A Truth About ACO Data For APP Reporting
  • Building Relationships to Improve Access to Healthcare, Improve Health Equity
  • CMS Execs Describe ‘Universal Foundation’ to Align Quality Measures
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/27/2023

Featured Articles:

  • What Prescription Drug Pricing Can Learn From Value-Based Care Models
  • First Look at Open CMMI Model Data: Value-based Care Growth Drivers in 2022
  • Value-based care services plant roots in the evolving healthcare landscape
  • Should Population-Based Payments Account for Social Risk Factors?
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/20/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Study Finds MIPS Scores Don’t Reflect True Quality Performance
  • CMS releases three initiatives to grow Medicare ACO participation
  • UnitedHealth to integrate behavioral, home health into growing number of value-based care models
  • Providers seek more incentives in ACO REACH to target highly underserved areas
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/13/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Is ACO REACH Model Poised to Bring Health Equity to Value-Based Care?
  • 5 Key Health Care Trends To Watch For In 2023
  • How value-based payments to clinicians can help close equity gaps
  • Healthcare workers are leaving the profession in droves. Here’s how you can ensure staff retention in a Value-Based Care reality
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/6/2023

Featured Articles:

  • Hospital-at-Home Care Model: What it is and Why it Works
  • 4 ACO REACH Updates Kick Off the New Year
  • Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions
  • Health Equity is Everyone’s Business; Success Requires a Strategy Rooted in Community Voice and Data
Full Issue

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VBC Newsstand 12/30/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Year in Review: Value-Based Care and Alternative Payment Models
  • Healthcare Access and Equity: Women’s Health and Technology Hold the Keys
  • What 2023 holds for EHR optimization, SDOH, patient access, health equity and more
  • Why PCPs Are Key to Coordinating Patient Engagement with Payers, ACOs
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VBC Newsstand 12/23/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Health Equity Roundup 2022: Policy Moves Forward
  • Value-Based Primary Care Must Also Integrate Specialty Care
  • Investing in the new era of value-based care
  • Using AI to Streamline the Provider-Payer Relationship
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VBC Newsstand 12/16/2022

Featured Articles:

  • The Most Successful Alternative Payment Models from CMMI, To Date
  • Value-Based Primary Care Providers Try New Strategies to Improve Population Health
  • How AI and machine learning can predict illness and boost health equity
  • The road to Oz: 5 ways physicians can finally reach the promised land of value-based care
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VBC Newsstand 12/9/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Growth Of Value-Based Care And Accountable Care Organizations In 2022
  • The Role of ACOs in Advancing Health Equity: A Comparison Between MSSP and ACO REACH
  • Health Equity Experts and Top Policy Leaders Launch Midwest Health Equity Coalition to Identify Evidence-Based Best Practices for Reducing Racial Health Disparities in America
  • Is Digital Health Closing Gaps in Health Equity?
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 12/2/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Easing the transition to value-based care through EHR
  • Value-Based Payment As A Tool To Address Excess US Health Spending
  • Accelerating value-based care: Why health plans now hold the keys
  • Declarations Aren’t Enough. Health Equity Needs Action, Healthcare Execs Say
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VBC Newsstand 11/25/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Why Value-based Care Needs To Be the Standard for Behavioral Health
  • Why Star Ratings Are Important For Providers, Too
  • Why Value-Based Business Models Are Core to 2022 Investment Activity
  • CMS aims to improve health equity data to reduce disparities
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VBC Newsstand 11/18/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Top 5 Challenges in Value-Based Care (and How to Solve Them)
  • How to Strengthen Hospital Market Positioning Using Performance Intelligence Data
  • 4 Benefits of Hospice Contracts in ACO REACH
  • Why equity in women’s health demands an integrated approach
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VBC Newsstand 11/11/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Three Ways to Boost Affiliate Engagement in Value-Based Care
  • Homecare & Health Equity: The Rx for Reaching Underserved Populations
  • Interoperability Proves Critical as the Health Care Industry Advances Toward Value-Based Care
  • How EHR Innovation Platforms Cut Clinician Burnout for Value-Based Care
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VBC Newsstand 11/4/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Impact of MPFS 2023 on your ACO’s financial decisions
  • Federal funding may boost social determinants of health infrastructure
  • How Sex/Gender EHR Interoperability Can Drive Population Health
  • Advance Care Planning: Disparities Between MA and FFS Enrolled Medicare Beneficiaries
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VBC Newsstand 10/28/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Valuable Insights on Value-Based Care: What We Learned at FLAACOs 2022
  • Examining the Positive Influence of VBC for Treating Depression
  • Who is Leading the Value-Based Care Transition in Primary Care?
  • Why care at home belongs in health equity strategies
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VBC Newsstand 10/21/2022

Featured Articles:

  • How payers, employers can expedite healthcare’s transition to value-based care
  • 3 Ways To Engage Physicians To Lead Transformation In Your APM
  • 7 Organizations Join Forces on ACO-Like Value-Based Care Network Dedicated to Behavioral Health
  • Using The Medicare Shared Savings Program To Innovate Primary Care Payment
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VBC Newsstand 10/14/2022

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Improve Quality, Physician Burnout As New Opportunities Emerge
  • Eight Key Strategies For APM Contracting Right Now
  • Advocate Aurora’s CMO Dr. Gary Stuck on ACO Success
  • How Medical Providers and Partners Can Work Toward Children’s Health Equity
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VBC Newsstand 10/7/2022

Featured Articles:

  • 4 Key Areas of Value-Based Care Transformation
  • White House works with health tech companies to address social determinants of health
  • Why Data is at the Heart of Value-Based Care Success
  • Doc Groups Ask Congress to Extend Payment Bonus for Alternative Payment Models
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 9/30/2022

Featured Articles:

  • How to Pursue Behavioral-Physical Healthcare Integration in a VBC Framework
  • A Proposal to Enhance the Health Equity Benchmark Adjustment in ACO REACH
  • How data drives value-based care and population health
  • Leveraging RCM and Coding to Help Address the Health Equity Gap
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VBC Newsstand 9/23/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Exploring the Intersection of AI, Bias, and Value-Based Care
  • Healthcare Vertical Integration: Back to the Future
  • Humana: Home Health Business Key To Value-Based Care Strategy
  • Policy Researchers: Look to Other Health Systems in Advancing Health Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 9/16/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Top 10 Accountable Care Organizations by Medicare Shared Savings
  • The Rapidly Evolving Move to Value-Based Care in a Post-Pandemic World
  • To Advance Health Equity For Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries, We Need Culturally Appropriate Services
  • Researchers Explore ACOs’ Cost Savings Around Patients with Mental Illness
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VBC Newsstand 9/9/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Industry Voices—No risk, no reward: How health plans are helping providers take on more risk in the transition to value-based care
  • Rethinking care for the most frail patients
  • Innovation for all: Adapting patient-facing tools to promote digital health equity
  • AMA and others make MSSP requests ahead of final rule
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VBC Newsstand 9/2/2022

Featured Articles:

  • CMS Releases the Latest MSSP Numbers, Touts Savings and Quality
  • Not Adequacy, Amplitude: Tactical Steps to Build a Preferred Provider Network
  • Addressing Challenges in Primary Care—Lessons to Guide Innovation
  • Top 3 Social Determinants of Health Barriers Among Seniors
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 8/26/2022

Featured Articles:

  • How Technology Helps Identify and Track Social Determinants of Health Data
  • Helping Older Patients Get Comfortable Talking About Mental Health
  • 4 Steps to Successful Value-Based Payment
  • A Need For Disability Data Justice
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 8/19/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Will Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Changes Drive Value-Based Care?
  • Physician Advocates for Equity See Built-In Problems in ACO Incentives
  • Lessons From Five Years Of The CMS Accountable Health Communities Model
  • Medicare cuts would undermine the movement to increasing in-home care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 8/12/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Health Equity Relies on Healthcare Orgs as Anchor Institutions
  • 3 Steps to Enter the Value-Based Care Space
  • CMS moves toward guidance on health equity, climate change
  • Report Identifies Keys to Data Integration for Value-Based Care
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VBC Newsstand 8/5/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Digital health companies must act on health equity. This is the time.
  • PY 2023 Decisions for Competing with or Participating in Multi-ACO Enablers
  • Strategic Implications of Health Equity in ACO REACH: Part 2 of 2
  • HEDIS Changes Reflect Focus on Health Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 7/29/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Opening the door: Are behavioral health providers ready for value-based care?
  • CMS Announces Unprecedented Quality Measure Set for Home- and Community-Based Services
  • Diabetes care quality measures must be improved, study finds
  • How Healthcare Spending, Utilization Varies by Payer, Region
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VBC Newsstand 7/22/2022

Featured Articles:

  • The Medicare Value-Based Care Strategy: Alignment, Growth, And Equity
  • AMA says Medicare payment schedule rule threatens patient access
  • Four ways to improve digital health equity
  • Risk-Based Alternative Payment Models Aid Chronic Disease Management
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VBC Newsstand 7/15/2022

Featured Articles:

  • CMS proposed payment rule includes major updates for ACOs
  • Three Key Decisions To Direct Your APM Adoption Strategy
  • Strategic Implications of Health Equity in ACO REACH: Part 1 of 2
  • CMS Analysis Reveals Implicit Bias in Healthcare, Value-Based Payment
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VBC Newsstand 7/8/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Five value-based care strategies for leveraging patient data
  • Risks And Benefits To Community Health Worker Certification
  • Greater Collaboration Needed for Digital Health, Interoperability
  • Study: Health system’s social needs program reduced utilization, but not enough to cover its high costs
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 7/1/2022

Featured Articles:

  • We Have A National Strategy For Accountable Care, So What’s Next?
  • 5 Imperatives For Your Value-Based Technology To Support APMs
  • Why Social Determinants of Health Are a Critical Factor for Preventing Member Risk Escalation in the Value-Based Care Equation
  • Industry Voices—ACOs, analytics and the great reopening
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/24/2022

Featured Articles:

  • What Research Says About ACO Success
  • Integrating social determinants of health into health data exchanges
  • What Hospital Success Looks Like Under Value-Based Care
  • MedPAC Backs Simplifying Medicare Alternative Payment Models
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/17/2022

Featured Articles:

  • How physicians can untangle the web of relationships essential for value-based care success
  • Six Ways Competition Must Shape Your APM Strategy
  • Health Equity, Gun Violence Prevention Among Priorities for AMA’s New President
  • Medical bias experts: Stop using race as a predictor of health outcomes — use SDOH instead
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 6/10/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Aneesh Chopra: Greater ACO enrollment will bolster preventive care
  • Health Value: It Takes a Skilled Workforce
  • Why Value-Based Care Begins with Quality Education
  • Younger Patients Want Social Determinants of Health Screenings
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VBC Newsstand 6/3/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Are ACOs and Home Services the Path to Health Equity?
  • Accounting for Risk Among Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
  • 5 Ways to Leverage Tech for Hospital Success Under Value-Based Care
  • How Health Information Exchanges Boost Value-Based Care
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/27/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Why CMS is prioritizing value-based care and how healthcare companies can support this initiative
  • Wanted: Better Script For Health System And Medical Group Transition To APMs
  • Efficient Data Sharing Needed for Value-Based Care Transition
  • ACO REACH And Advancing Equity Through Value-Based Payment, Part 2
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/20/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Value-based care creating a new era of interoperability
  • Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design
  • Medicare Shared Savings Program: Celebrating 10 Years and Looking Forward to the Future
  • ACO REACH And Advancing Equity Through Value-Based Payment, Part 1
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VBC Newsstand 5/13/2022

Featured Articles:

  • For ACOs, the Question Is: To eCQM or Not to eCQM?
  • Technology’s critical role in successful value-based care
  • How to Use Healthcare Analytics to Improve Care Access
  • Using Data to Quantify a Key Pandemic SDOH: Social Isolation
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 5/6/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Breaking Down Common CMS Value-Based Payment Programs
  • Experts Discuss Driving Health Equity, Increasing CMS, ACO Alignment
  • CMS targets reforms to benchmarks to kick-start flat ACO participation
  • CMS Officials Announce Major New Strategies Around ACOs
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VBC Newsstand 4/29/2022

Featured Articles:

  • What’s driving the transition to value-based care?
  • Fact Checking the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model
  • Future of Value-Based Care, Role of Alternative Payment Models
  • Key Advantages of Medicare Advantage Plans Versus FFS Medicare
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/22/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Here’s what primary care will look like in the future
  • Population Health vs. Public Health: How They Differ and the Tech Behind Them
  • Hospices Gauge How Quality Counts in ACO REACH
  • Patients struggle with unmet basic needs: Medical providers can help
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/15/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Everybody’s Talking About Value-Based Health Care. Here’s What They’re Not Saying.
  • Nurses are Burned Out. Can Quality Measures Help?
  • Implement Pharmacy Performance Measures for Value-Based Care
  • Legal and payer changes focus on addressing social determinants of health
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/8/2022

Featured Articles:

  • What Comes Next In Prioritizing Equity In Payment? The ACO REACH Model
  • Bipartisan House bill aims to boost value-based purchasing drug agreements in Medicaid
  • Podcast: Analyzing the New ACO REACH Model, with Rick Goddard and Joe Satorius
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 4/1/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Rural ACOs Work to Overcome Challenges in Medicare Payment
  • AHA launches Health Equity Roadmap, an interactive program for members to build out their equity efforts
  • How to Evaluate Physician Performance Using Appropriateness
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/25/2022

Featured Articles:

  • A Typology For Health Equity Measures
  • Sneak Peek into the Post-Acute Care Industry Trend Report
  • HIMSS 2022: Health equity, transformation, Michael Phelps, Scott Pelley, and other highlights
  • Most doctors have patients affected by social drivers but feel ill-equipped to address them, survey finds
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/18/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Value-Based Contracting: At an Inflection Point?
  • Why Understanding Risk Scoring in the ACO REACH Model is Critical For Success
  • Small Practice Participation and Performance in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations
  • Hospital Populations Do Not Reflect Communities, Imperil Health Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/11/2022

Featured Articles:

  • The Accountable Care Model: Weathering the Storm and Growing Stronger
  • Key Components of a Post-Acute Growth Engine
  • Care coordination: What’s needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?
  • Top Effective Social Determinants of Health Interventions
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 3/4/2022

Featured Articles:

  • CMS changing direct contracting to an ACO gets mixed reaction
  • Remote Patient Monitoring Best Practices: Tips For Setting Your RPM Program Up For Success
  • How ACO REACH Compares to Direct Contracting
  • How The Principles Of Environmental Justice Can Improve Health Equity
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/25/2022

Featured Articles:

  • CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023
  • Seven Key Strategies For Health Systems And ACOs To Attract And Engage Consumers
  • What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
  • Provider Collaboration Needed to Drive Patient Experience, ACO Success
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/18/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Healthcare Groups Plead with HHS’ Becerra to Retain Direct Contracting Model
  • Trends in Characteristics of Fee-For-Service Medicare and Medicare Advantage Enrollees
  • Podcast: NAACOS Health Policy Update and the Rumored Cancellation of the GPDC Model, with Allison Brennan
  • Do Patient Navigators Close Racial Disparities in Primary Care Access?
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/11/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Social Determinants Of Health In The Age Of Digital Healthcare
  • Healthcare Associations Call on Congress to Spur APM Adoption
  • What’s Ahead in 2022
  • Volume vs. value: Physician compensation models slow to adapt
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 2/4/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Will Consumers Derail Your Value-Based Care Success?
  • Raising the Bar: Using Primary Care Practice Standards to Advance Health Equity in Medicaid
  • Use of Electronic Health Record Systems in Accountable Care Organizations
  • Along with rate increase for MA plans, CMS pitches closer look at social determinants of health
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/28/2022

Featured Articles:

  • The Case For ACOs: Why Payment Reform Remains Necessary
  • How to Use Longitudinal Patient Data to Create a Better Continuum of Care
  • Which digital health sectors led VC investment in 2021
  • Examining the value-based care approach: How improved data models and analysis can remedy inequities
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/21/2022

Featured Articles:

  • The Perils and Payoffs of Alternative Payment Models for Community Health Centers
  • Getting Real About Health Equity
  • Growth in Health Information Exchange With ACO Market Penetration
  • How Pharmacists Can Help Address Social Determinants of Health
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/14/2022

Featured Articles:

  • CMS Officials Make Major Statement on Health Equity, Referencing Role of Value-Based Care
  • Waves of Pandemic Incite Soaring Demand for Population Health Technology and Analytics Solutions, Black Book 2022 User Survey
  • 5 Behavioral Health Trends for 2022
  • Medicare Direct Contracting Demo Garners Critics and Defenders
Full Issue
VBC Newsstand 1/7/2022

Featured Articles:

  • Improving Risk Prediction for Chronic Disease Management
  • How Payers Are Linking Community-Based And Value-Based Care To Strengthen Outcomes And Equity
  • What CMMI’s director told us about mandatory payment models, ACOs, and more
  • Favorite Quotes of the Year: Health Equity Edition
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ACO Newsstand 12/31/2021

Featured Articles:

  • The Year in Review: A Year of Twists and Turns for APMs
  • Data Drives Value-Based Healthcare
  • Improved Payments for Social Care Can Promote Health Equity
  • Medicaid Managed Care Organizations Help Address SDOH, Health Equity
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/24/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 2022 forecast: 7 predictions for what lies ahead for health equity
  • The Time Is Right to Revisit Value-Based Care
  • Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022
  • The State of Value-Based Reimbursement, Financial Risk in Healthcare
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/17/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Why value-based administration is key to value-based care
  • LAN survey: 40% of health payments tied to alternative payment models in 2020
  • Power and Participation: How Community Health Centers Address the Determinants of the Social Determinants of Health
  • Value-Based Care Driving Efforts to Improve Patient Access
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ACO Newsstand 12/10/2021
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ACO Newsstand 12/3/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 4 Key Use Cases for Patient Data Access, Patient Portals
  • Accountable Care Organization & Direct Contracting Entity Survey
  • FLAACOS 2021 VBC PANEL SURVEY: A Summary of ACOExhibitHall.com Advisory Board Responses
  • How a pandemic shines a brighter light on the need for SDoH innovation
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/26/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: A Scorecard of State Performance
  • Benchmark Report Sneak Peek: 2022 Post-Acute ACO Partnerships in Focus
  • Choosing the Appropriate Provider or Practice Group for Referrals
  • Health Systems Set Sights on Risk-Based Payment in Medicare Advantage
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/19/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 62% of Consumers Unfamiliar with Value-Based Care, Study Finds
  • Building a Value-Based Pharmacy Performance Program
  • Small primary care practices that received training in quality measures to enhance care improved patient outcomes
  • 5 ways health plans are addressing health equity
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/12/2021

Featured Articles:

  • The 2022 CMS PFS And QPP Final Rule: A Warning Shot To Provider Holdouts Of Value-Based APMs
  • New Kid On The Block: Remote Therapeutic Monitoring To Make Its Way Into CMS 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
  • Health Equity and Health Disparities: The Role of Health IT and the Need to Standardize Data Collection
  • Normalized Data: What It Is and Why You Need It
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/5/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Medicare, Medicaid innovation center lays out ambitious agenda for next decade
  • Steve Klasko on diverging from the ‘natural order of things’ to move health care forward
  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health Closes Health Disparities
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/29/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New ACO Playbook: How To Supercharge Your ACO
  • Improving The Health Of Rural Americans
  • BMA: Medicare Advantage Offers Lower Costs, Better Benefits Than FFS
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/22/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Downside Risk Pays Off: 4 Best Practices for High ACO Performance
  • Analysis: How COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Vary Across Different Communities
  • Who is Generation C and how will healthcare adapt to meet their expectations?
  • Population Health and Data Analytics Strategies for Value-Based Care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/15/2021

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Angling for a Bigger Role in Health Equity
  • Healthcare at the Crossroads: Value-Based Care and Interoperability
  • Acknowledging Economic Stability as a Primary Social Determinant of Health
  • Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 2: Building On The ACO Model
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/8/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New ACO Playbook: Seven Keys To Expanding ACO Savings—And Market Share
  • What is Utilization Management?
  • CMMI director hints at shift away from payment models for every episode of care, specialties
  • Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 1: The Risk-Score Game
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/1/2021

Featured Articles:

  • The State of Payer, CBO Social Determinants of Health Contracting
  • Special Report: Analyzing 2020 ACO Results and Factors for Success
  • SDOH Strategies All Provider Organizations Should be Adopting Now
  • HHS aims to use value-based care payment models to lower drug prices
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/24/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Efficiency One Key to Success in Value-Based Care Engagement
  • Coordination Without Consolidation? Options for ACOs
  • Gottlieb: COVID-19’s Lasting Effects on Healthcare Delivery
  • Healthcare leaders share lessons learned addressing social determinants of health
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/17/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Developing value-based virtual partnerships: What health plans should know
  • CMS Releases 2020 MSSP ACO Results, Marking Fourth Consecutive Year of Net Savings to Medicare
  • Gottlieb: COVID-19’s Lasting Effects on Healthcare Delivery
  • Healthcare leaders share lessons learned addressing social determinants of health
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/10/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Patient Centeredness Transfers to Data, Too
  • New ACO Playbook: 3 Strategies To Tackle Hidden Costs Of Specialty Care
  • Paying it Forward: How Payers Can Accelerate the Transition to Value-based Care
  • 10 issues every healthcare leader should be thinking about
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/3/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Cost Savings Aren’t The Only Objective For ACOs: Growth Matters, Too
  • 5 Ways Value-based Care Organizations Use Healthcare Data to Improve Outcomes & Attract Patients
  • What ACOs should do now that CMS won’t extend the Next Gen ACO model through 2022
  • Study: Private consultancies can influence hospital participation in CMS bundled payments model
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/27/2021

Featured Articles:

  • A New Elephant is in the ACO Waiting Room: It is Following the Money
  • Closing the Gaps & Improving Care: Why Patient Centric Data Matters
  • Moneyball for Healthcare: Data is the Key
  • New ACO Playbook: Three Ultimate ACO Strategies To Keep Physician Practices Onboard
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ACO Newsstand 8/20/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Value-Based Care Assessment: The First Step to Value-Based Care
  • The role of CINs in securing Value-Based Contracts
  • How to Add, Pay Community-Based Organizations in Value-based Care Contracts
  • Study: Private consultancies can influence hospital participation in CMS bundled payments model
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/13/2021

Featured Articles:

  • The Fundamentals of Medicare Advantage Star Rating Methodology
  • Using Healthcare Analytics to Understand & Optimize Physician Referrals at the Point of Care
  • ACO Participation May Keep SNFs ‘In the Game’
  • Use Value-Based Payment To Resolve The Debate About Telehealth Payment Parity
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/6/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Shared Savings ACOs get a year off from electronic clinical quality measures
  • Five Important Health Care Trends That Consumers Should Track
  • Increase in Medicare Advantage Activity to Address Social Determinants of Health, But Barriers Still Remain
  • The Missing Ingredient in Your Hospital’s Social Determinants Initiative
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/30/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Medicare eligibility erases many healthcare disparities in US
  • 3 Strategies To Push ACO Savings Beyond Coordination of Care Limits
  • Feeding two birds with one seed: payment reform, telehealth, & health equity
  • How to choose an ACO partner
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/23/2021

Featured Articles:

  • The 2022 CMS PFS And QPP Proposed Rule: 7 Things To Know
  • Top 3 Steps to Develop a High Performing Network (HPN)
  • The pandemic fallout to come, and the role of digital SDOH
  • The (SGR) Fix Is In: How MACRA Short-Circuited Incentives For Joining Two-Sided Models
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/16/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New ACO Playbook: 3 Approaches To Scale Up Data Sufficiency For Value-Based Care
  • Healthcare Is Not Equal for All – We Need Population Health 4.0
  • CMS Needs to Rethink How Medicare Assesses Quality
  • Using advanced analytics to look at the ‘whole person’ for better value-based care delivery
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/9/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Educational Attainment Emerges as SDOH Predicting Health Disparities
  • Keys to Building a Successful RPM Program
  • Value-based care gains traction during COVID-19
  • Medicare ACOs Facing Multiple Changes and Challenges
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/2/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Integrating Data Systems To Support Value-Based Contracts
  • Rep. Bustos: Social Determinants of Health Key Legislative Goal
  • Addressing social determinants of health to attract and retain talent
  • Number of Accountable Care Organizations Declined During COVID-19
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/25/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New ACO Playbook: How ACOs Can Transform Clinical Care For Diabetes
  • The Interoperability Effect: Driving Value-Based Care and Financial Health
  • Social Isolation Key SDOH Impacting Health, Mortality Outcomes
  • Network Leakage: The Cause & Effect
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/18/2021

Featured Articles:

  • MedPAC: Overhaul MA payments and streamline CMMI models
  • 4 SDOH Driving Health Disparities in Patient Portal Use
  • The expanding role of specialists in value-based care
  • Nutrition’s Critical Role in Value-Based Care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/11/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Building a social determinants of health strategy: data is the key
  • A Decade of Value-Based Payment: Lessons Learned And Implications For The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation, Part 1
  • Lawmakers call for CMMI to be more transparent and accountable as model review continues
  • Why should payers and employers care about community care networks?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/4/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Value-Based Contracting 101: Preparing, Negotiating, and Succeeding
  • Community health worker support reduces 30-day readmission among high-risk ACO patients
  • The Real Registry Advantage For ACOs Reporting Via APP: 5 Myths Debunked
  • Working 9-to-3: Addressing the social determinants of aging
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/28/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New ACO Playbook: To Show Standout Performance, ACOs Must Rethink Quality
  • How value-based care can support the growing mental and behavioral health need
  • CMS won’t extend the Next Generation ACO Model through 2022
  • Time To Set Aside The Term ‘Low-Value Care’—Focus On Achieving High-Value Care For All
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/21/2021

Featured Articles:

  • ABCs of VBC: CMS Value-Based Initiatives – A Current Review and Future Perspective
  • The Move to Value-Based Care Takes a Pandemic Pause
  • Why PCPs Should Focus on Coding and Documentation in Value-Based Care Programs
  • Using Novel Data Sources To Inform Care Management During And After The Pandemic
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/14/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New ACO Playbook: Three Touchstones For ACO Viability
  • Profiling ACO Success: What Drives High Performance in the Medicare Shared Savings Program?
  • How social determinants of health can enable value-based care
  • AMA: Most physicians now work outside of private practice
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/7/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New ACO Playbook: Can Coordination Of Care Save Enough Money To Save ACOs?
  • In Providers’ Words: What’s Working and What’s Not in Value-Based Care Today
  • Knowing SDOH is Good Medicine
  • How to Avoid Falling From Grace: Strategies for MA Plans to Sustain & Improve Performance
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/30/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Value-based care at ‘critical juncture,’ new CMMI chief says
  • It doesn’t have to be ‘either/or’ with value-based payment
  • NAACOS Recognizes Three ACOs for Care Improvement Efforts
  • On the Road to High-Value Healthcare in the U.S.: Are We There Yet?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/23/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Why ACOs Need A New Playbook
  • Whither the ACO?
  • Industry Groups Seek Next Gen Extension, Full-Risk ACO Options
  • The Key to SDOH: Health literacy
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/16/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Population Health Still At Odds With Fee-For-Service
  • Provider Perceptions of Pharmacists in Primary Care–Based Accountable Care Organizations
  • Reinventing Community-Based Healthcare Delivery in a Value-Based Landscape
  • To Sustain The Value Movement, Make Next Generation ACOs A Permanent Option
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/9/2021

Featured Articles:

  • 5 Value-Based Behavioral Health Strategies For ACOs And Medical Group Models
  • The shift to value-based care has accelerated in the wake of the pandemic
  • CMS Delays CHART Model’s ACO Transformation Track
  • MedPAC calls for fewer pay models, cutting Medicare Advantage spending
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/2/2021

Featured Articles:

  • A Roadmap for Value-Based Payment in 2030
  • With Competing Payment Models On Hold, What’s The Future For ACOs?
  • CMS delays ACO Track of the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation Model
  • NAACOS Calls For Renewed HHS Focus, Funding on Value-Based Care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/26/2021

Featured Articles:

  • NAACOS asks HHS Secretary Becerra to grow Medicare ACO programs
  • CMS payment models that are under review, delayed
  • CMS Starts Primary Care First Value-Based Payment Model Second Wave
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/19/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Rewarding ACOs that Manage Complex Patients
  • Why Workforce Development for Value-Based Care is a Vital Issue to Address
  • Providers and payers face intense negotiations after the pandemic
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/12/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Biden Administration Pauses Key Value-Based Reimbursement Models
  • Challenges and Strategies Behind Patient Engagement
  • Making the emergency department utilization, SDOH connection
  • MedPAC likely to recommend CMS simplify alternative payment models
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/26/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Low-Value Care Spending Slows as Medicare Pushes Value-Based Care
  • Achieving Success in Medicare’s Highest-Risk ACO Program: One ACO’s
  • Best Practices in Value-based Care
  • The digital divide becomes a new social determinant of health
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/19/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Addressing Social Determinants Lowered ED Utilization in Medicare
  • How to bring specialists into the ACO fold: 9 strategies for success
  • Coordinated payment policies could speed transition to value, experts say
  • 7 New Value-Based Health Care Directions You’ll See In 2021
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/12/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Next Gen ACOs: Savers or Spenders?
  • CMS Regulation Impacts on MSSP and QPP: The Top 10 Changes ACOs Need to Know
  • Physician Practices Trail Hospitals in Value-Based Care Readiness
  • CMMI’s geographic direct contracting model needs an overhaul, experts say
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/5/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Top Social Determinants of Health Barring Patient Care Access
  • What Will CMS Do Under the Biden Administration?
  • Why Health Equity Will Be Measured In Value Based Health Care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/29/2021

Featured Articles:

  • ACO Participation Hits New Low as Biden Administration Takes Over
  • Skilled Nursing Facilities Lack Enhanced Patient Data Sharing
  • Billing, antitrust exemption changes upend negotiations between insurers and providers
  • NAACOS Warns Policymakers Over Slowing ACO Participation in the MSSP Program
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/22/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Next Generation ACOs Saved Medicare $558M in 2019
  • CMS Issues Guidance for Medicaid and CHIP Programs Regarding Social Determinants of Health
  • ACO participation reaches new low as advocates press Biden for major changes
  • Re-thinking Alternative Care Models and Value-based Care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/15/2021

Featured Articles:

  • Most Next Gen ACOs achieved bonuses in 2019
  • 7 New Value-Based Health Care Directions You’ll See In 2021
  • Telehealth flexibilities continue and ACOs are held harmless under public health emergency extension
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/8/2021

Featured Articles:

  • New physicians short on opportunities to practice value-based care
  • What percent of physicians participated in ACOs? – 9 stats
  • Atul Gawande: To fix our broken healthcare system, start with primary care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/1/2021

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Fear Direct Contracting Options Stray Too Far From Providers
  • ACOs press for halt to Geographic Direct Contracting model due to complexity concerns
  • The Year That Was: In 2020, Tumult for ACOs, and a Year-End Holiday Gift Under the Tree
Full Issue

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ACO Newsstand 12/18/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS unveils highly anticipated geographic direct-contracting model
  • Is the CMS Geographic Direct Contracting Model Right For You?
  • Prospective or Retrospective ACO Attribution Matters for Seriously Ill Patients
  • A Prayer and a Plea for our Nation to Realize the Severity of COVID-19, with Dr. Brent Staton
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/18/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS unveils highly anticipated geographic direct-contracting model
  • Is the CMS Geographic Direct Contracting Model Right For You?
  • Prospective or Retrospective ACO Attribution Matters for Seriously Ill Patients
  • A Prayer and a Plea for our Nation to Realize the Severity of COVID-19, with Dr. Brent Staton
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/11/2020

Featured Articles:

  • As Value-Based Care And Telehealth Rise, Patient Experience Measurement Desperately Needs An Update For The Digital Age
  • CMS doubles down on value-based care
  • Prospective or Retrospective ACO Attribution Matters for Seriously Ill Patients
  • The 2021 QPP Final Rule: A Warning Bell For ACOs And A Wake-Up Call For MIPS Participants
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 12/4/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS Announces Changes to Medicare MD Payment Related to Telehealth, ACOs
  • A New Elephant is in the ACO Waiting Room: It is Following the Money
  • HHS’s Efforts to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices and Transition to Value-Based Care – Part 1: CMS and OIG Issue a Series of Final Rules
  • Five Strategies To Help ACOs And Independent Specialists Create Common Ground On Data Sharing
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/20/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs, Population-Based APMs Most Effective at Lowering Costs
  • How PCPs can leverage better coding to succeed in value-based care
  • Evaluation Of Medicare Alternative Payment Models: What The Data Show
  • Health Affairs Blog: Health Policy Researchers See Far More Complexity in MSSP Than Meets the Eye
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/13/2020

Featured Articles:

  • How ACOs In Rural And Underserved Areas Responded To Medicare’s ACO Investment Model
  • The 4th Realm of Health: Social Determinants of Health – The Undiagnosed Condition
  • Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 11/6/2020

Featured Articles:

  • What Will a Biden or Trump Victory Mean for Healthcare?
  • ACO Survey Shows Why Congress Should Address Value-based Payment Incentives
  • Any Way the Wind Blows: The Future of Heath Care Payment Reform
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announces 51 direct contracting entities
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/30/2020

Featured Articles:

  • The COVID-19 Pandemic Can Help Us Understand Low-Value Health Care
  • 2020 Shared Savings Benchmarks – Does your Organization Meet the Mark?
  • Value-Based Care Requires a Balance of Telehealth, In-Person Visits
  • CMS finalizes insurer transparency rule
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/23/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Telehealth Expansion in Medicare: Policy Changes, Recent Trends in Adoption, and Future Impact
  • The Medicare Shared Savings Program In 2019: Positive Results During Major Transitions And On The Eve Of A Pandemic
  • How Top Accountable Care Organizations Save Year After Year
  • MGMA 2020: Transitioning to value-based care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/16/2020

Featured Articles:

  • The True ROI of Population Health Management
  • How Accountable Care Organizations Can Survive the Next Healthcare Crisis
  • Seven Key Analytics To Direct Your ACO’s Specialty Strategies For Risk
  • Direct contracting favors new entrants over existing ACOs
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/9/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Value-based Care After COVID-19: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know
  • ACOs Announcing Millions in Shared Savings
  • Establishing A Value-Based ‘New Normal’ For Telehealth
  • Citing COVID-19, providers push back on CMS payment rule rate cuts, telehealth rollback in 2021
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 10/2/2020

Featured Articles:

  • AMA and others ask CMS not to finalize proposed ACO quality changes
  • ACOs still face barriers to achieving profitability, care goals
  • Value as a business differentiator: 6 execs on what makes their ACOs high-performing
  • Preparing Providers for Full MACRA Implementation in 2022
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/25/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Most ACOs Worried About Rising Advanced APM Thresholds Next Year
  • Accountable Care Organizations Shifting Gears in 2020 (survey)
  • CMS and NAACOS: The Battle of the Narratives Continues-During a Key Moment for ACOs
  • Social Determinants of Health: The Unaddressed Variable Accounting for 80% of Health Outcomes
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/18/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 2019 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO Performance: Lower Costs And Promising Results Under ‘Pathways To Success’
  • CMS Savings Reaffirms the Need for Primary Care Support
  • NAACOs urges Congress to address qualifying thresholds in value-based care models
  • How Medicare Successes Inform Medicaid Value-Based Care Progress
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/11/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Three Fixes For ACOs’ Physician Engagement Strategies
  • Doctors affiliated with health systems have much higher MIPS scores, JAMA study finds
  • Why Primary Care Should Run the Healthcare System
  • Coronavirus Pandemic Impacts Value-Based Contracts
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 9/4/2020

Featured Articles:

  • The CHART Model: What it means for ACOs and Health Communities in 2020
  • 3 Keys to Engage Specialists in Value-Based Care
  • Straight Talk For Providers Adopting Capitation: Don’t Fly Blind Without The Right Data
  • The QPP Proposed Rule 2021: What’s in Store for MIPS and ACOs
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/28/2020

Featured Articles:

  • How an ACO, FQHC Model Leveraged Social Determinants of Health
  • Pre-visit Planning: Uncovering Stones for ACO Financial Viability Amidst COVID-19
  • 2019 Financial Settlement and Quality Report Delivered
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/21/2020

Featured Articles:

  • NAACOS-Commissioned Report: ACOs and APMs Could Save CMS $270 Million Over Next Decade
  • The Math of ACOs
  • Lessons from a MassHealth ACO that saved $12.2M
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/14/2020

Featured Articles:

  • How ACOs Can Control Costs With Physician Help, In 3 Steps. Really.
  • CMMI Announces New Model to Support Rural Value Transformation
  • Population health programs don’t always work – 3 lessons learned from health insurer execs
  • How To Ensure COVID-19 Doesn’t Delay Value-Based Care
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 8/7/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Effective Care Management by Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations
  • CMS Drops Proposed Rule Impacting Quality Payment Program, MSSP ACOs
  • Some Alternative Payment Models Are Improving Behavioral Health
  • MEDICARE Home-Based Medical Care Can Reduce Hospitalizations and Lower Costs – But It’s Still Underutilized
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/31/2020

Featured Articles:

  • New bill seeks to boost participation in advanced payment models, ACOs via several reforms
  • Next Gen ACOs Doing Complex Care Management Are Reducing Hospitalizations, Costs
  • Telehealth made up almost half of all Medicare beneficiaries’ primary care use in April
  • COVID-19, Direct Contracting, & ACOs: Where Are We Headed?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/24/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Critical Considerations For Condition-Based Alternative Payment Models: A Multi-stakeholder Perspective
  • Episodes Are More Than Payment Models: They’re Key To Improving Care
  • Leapfrog Group: Employers rank Cigna highest, UnitedHealthcare lowest on drive for value
  • Seema Verma: Early Impact Of CMS Expansion Of Medicare Telehealth During COVID-19
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/17/2020

Featured Articles:

  • AMGA Calls for Medicare Shared Savings Program Changes Amid COVID-19
  • COVID-19: A Forcing Function for Value Based Care?
  • Payer Fuses Value-Based Care, Support Payments for Small Practices
  • Family doctor, employer groups join forces to replace fee-for-service
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/10/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Standalone ACOs Saved More Than Hybrid Medical Home Models
  • Nearly 70% of ACOs Will Soon Offer Some Type of Home Visits
  • Payers Continue to Expand Value-Based Contracting Despite COVID-19
  • Telemedicine in the Time of Coronavirus
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 7/3/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Describe How Population Health Expertise Is Paying Off During Pandemic
  • How To Start Redressing Racial Bias And Reducing Health Care Inequities
  • As Hospitals Lose $50B Per Month, Home Health Providers Consider New Acquisition Opportunities
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/26/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Can Grow Value-Based Payment in Medicare, But Changes Needed
  • The Advisory Board’s Kerns on the Longer-Term Prospects of Risk-Based Payment Models
  • MaineHealth ACO execs show how they used predictive analytics to reduce ED utilization
  • This Next Gen ACO relies on data investments to help track COVID-19 hot spots. Here’s how
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/19/2020

Featured Articles:

  • MedPAC June Report Highlights Fix to Ensure ACOs Can’t Game System
  • Implicit Bias and Racial Disparities of Care: Recognizing and Addressing the Role of Implicit Bias in Vulnerable Patient Care
  • ACOs Lean More on Physician Assistants, Non-Physician Providers
  • COVID-19 Spotlights 3 Payer Telehealth Expansion Challenges
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/12/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Is Telehealth Bridging Or Widening The Health Care Gap? We Need To Find Out.
  • CMS Extends Next Generation ACO Model, Offers APM Flexibilities
  • A Fortunate ACO Coincidence
  • Berwick Challenges ACOs to Take on Inequity, Racism
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 6/5/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS extends Next Generation ACO model, offers direct contracting details
  • Report: The Future of ACOs After COVID-19
  • Seema Verma: New CMS Payment Model Flexibilities For COVID-19
  • Million Hearts: Tracking Cardiovascular Risk to Improve Population Heart Health
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/29/2020

Featured Articles:

  • More Physician Groups Lead Accountable Care Organizations
  • One Foot In the Boat, One On the Shore: A Scenario Suddenly Made More Complex
  • Telehealth Expansion During Coronavirus Pandemic Changing Physician-Patient Relationship
  • ACOs seek info on Next Gen, Direct Contracting models amid COVID-19 pandemic
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/22/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs seek clarity on future of payment models
  • Accountable Care Organizations Are Increasingly Led by Physician Groups Rather Than Hospital Systems
  • Can PCPs Survive COVID-19? Only If Fee-for-Service Goes
  • ACOs ask Trump admin for more help to cope with coronavirus
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/15/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACO Participation Did Not Lower Care Access for Vulnerable Patients
  • Size Is Now A Problem That Large Hospitals And Health Systems Must Solve
  • Innovative Ways that ACOs can Increase Affordable Housing in Their Communities
  • Emergency CMS rule provides optimism for alternative payment models
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/8/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Hospital and provider groups cheer new CMS flexibility on telehealth, capacity and ACO losses
  • CMS Delivers Key Win for ACOs in Emergency Rule
  • The Interim ACO Rule Explained: A Pause, Not A Reprieve
  • CMS removes COVID-19 inpatient treatment from ACO performance calculations
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 5/1/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ‘The genie’s out of the bottle on this one’: Seema Verma hints at the future of telehealth for CMS beneficiaries
  • Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO
  • Sleep Apnea Care in the Era of COVID-19
  • Infrastructure, Staffing and Culture Work Together to Navigate Risk
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/24/2020

Featured Articles:

  • More ACOs turn to telehealth to combat COVID-19 financial crisis
  • Maintaining Progress Toward Accountable Care And Payment Reform During A Pandemic, Part 2: Immediate Issues And Short-Term Actions
  • Impact of COVID-19 on Accountable Care Organizations Short-Term and Long-Term
  • Stretched To The Limit By COVID-19, Will Providers Get Relief From Medicare Value-Based Programs?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/17/2020

Featured Articles:

  • MedPAC Urges CMS to Drop Pandemic-Skewed 2020 ACO Benchmarks
  • Maintaining Progress Toward Accountable Care And Payment Reform During A Pandemic, Part 1: Utilization And Financial Impact
  • Survey Predicts Massive Defection from MSSP; NAACOS Calls for Hold-Harmless on COVID-19-Related Losses
  • Could coronavirus derail the decades-long shift to value-based care?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/10/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Accountable Care And Population Health In Time Of Pandemic
  • CMS sends $51B in advance payments to hospitals
  • Telehealth plays big role in coronavirus cure | Commentary
  • The Transition from Reimagining to Recreating Health Care Is Now
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 4/3/2020

Featured Articles:

  • COVID-19 Health Policy Updates
  • What providers need to know about CMS’ recent changes to Medicare quality payment programs
  • Bridging the EHR Divide. Helping ACOs and CINs Overcome Communication Challenges
  • Benchmarking ACO Network Utilization: Lessons Learned in Network Design and Performance
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/27/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Analysis: COVID-19 could raise Medicare spending by as much as $115B over next year
  • Change Needed to Make ONC Interoperability Rule Work for ACOs
  • Virtual is the New Normal For ACOs and Healthcare
  • Postacute Care Preparedness for COVID-19: Thinking Ahead
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/20/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs vulnerable to penalties, no savings in light of coronavirus
  • A Letter to ACOs: An Update on NAACOS’s advocacy on COVID-19
  • ACOs seek flexibility from CMS to mitigate losses due to coronavirus
  • ACOs Concerned Coronavirus to Impact Shared Savings, Losses
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/13/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS releases Key Dates for Direct Contracting Payment Models for Direct Contracting Payment Models
  • MedPAC: There’s Room For Specialists in ACOs, But No Savings
  • “HIMSS20 Has Been Canceled, but We Haven’t!”
  • 25% of Provider Organization Revenues Tied To Value-Based Payments
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 3/6/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACO Path To Viability: Direct Contracting May Be The Opportunity
  • Alternative Payment Models Save, But Drop-Out Rate Still a Concern
  • Implementing Value-Based Reimbursement in Behavioral Healthcare
  • Humana launches value-based program aimed at the social determinants of health
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/28/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Understanding the Direct Contracting (DC) Payment Model
  • The Impact of ED Optimization on ACOs
  • NAACOS wants more details, changes to direct contracting payments
  • Out-of-Network Primary Care Linked to Higher ACO Costs
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/21/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS needs to provide more support to small, physician-led ACOs or risk drop-outs: report
  • ACOs Lack Data On Patient Social Needs, Community Partners
  • Want to Increase Docs’ ACO Participation? Start With an ‘Upside Only’ Arrangement
  • Are ACOs Successful in Integrating Social Services with Medical Care?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/14/2020

Featured Articles:

  • CMS needs to provide more support to small, physician-led ACOs or risk drop-outs: report
  • ACOs Lack Data On Patient Social Needs, Community Partners
  • CMS Loosens Restrictions on Telehealth for Certain Shared-Risk ACOs
  • Researchers: Significant Return on Investment Found in Use of Community Health Workers
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 2/7/2020

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Warn Future of Next Gen Program Appears Bleak
  • Upstream With A Small Paddle: How ACOs Are Working Against The Current To Meet Patients’ Social Needs
  • How ACOs are Integrating Social Determinants of Health in Practice
  • AMGA: Advancing Value-Based Care Hinges on Claims Data Access
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/31/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Is Medicare Direct Contracting the right fit for your organization?
  • 5 Population Health Management Challenges Facing ACOs
  • Patient Engagement Key in Consumer-Centric Healthcare Models
  • What’s Behind the Huge Analytics Disconnect in Healthcare? Evidence of a Lag in Leveraging Data Is Mounting
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/24/2020

Featured Articles:

  • 37% of ACOs are taking on downside risk
  • Is volume the key to value-based care success?
  • 95% of post-acute care providers will be subject to new payment models in 2020, 2021, analysis shows
  • Can Hospitals Still Lead Health Care Under Risk?
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/17/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Number Of ACOs Taking Downside Risk Doubles Under ‘Pathways To Success’
  • Performance Year 2020 Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations
  • Next Gen ACOs aren’t lowering hospital spending: 5 things to know
  • Industry Voices-Building it right from the beginning: Measuring the impact of SDOH interventions
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/10/2020

Featured Articles:

  • Program meant to curb repeat hospital stays fails big test
  • Can Value-Based Payment Improve Health Care and Lower Costs?
  • How Are ACOs Prioritizing Palliative Care And Other Serious Illness Strategies?
  • CMS releases MIPS results for 2018: 5 things to know
Full Issue
ACO Newsstand 1/3/2020

Featured Articles:

  • In response to providers, CMS offers further specifics about direct contracting
  • NAACOS launches new task force to help doctors with new CMS payment models
  • Population health management: The key to value-based care
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2019

ACO Newsstand 12/27/2019

Featured Articles:

  • MA value-based plan enrollment tripling for 2020
  • Patient Engagement Technology Looms Large for 2020 Health Trends
  • The Year in Policy and Payment: A Look at One Critical Alternative Payment Issue
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ACO Newsstand 12/20/2019

Featured Articles:

  • More payers jump into value-based Medicare Advantage plans in 2020
  • Bottom Line: Can Consumers Survive Value-Based Health Care?
  • 3 Strategies to Transform Care Management
  • Value-Based Healthcare Network For Self-Insured Employers Launches In Florida
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ACO Newsstand 12/13/2019

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs Have Saved Medicare $3.53B From 2013 to 2017, New Analysis Finds
  • 90% of Value-Based Payments in Commercial Sector Based on FFS
  • Healthcare must look inward to better address social determinants of health, Berwick says
  • 5 Ways Technology Will Enable Value-Based Care in 2020 and Beyond
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ACO Newsstand 12/6/2019

Featured Articles:

  • ACOs saved Medicare $755M from 2013 to 2017, new analysis finds
  • Value-Based Care Leads the Way to Lower Costs and Better Quality
  • Industry Leaders Support Proposed Changes to ACO Benchmarking
  • Digital health – Getting beyond the smoke and mirrors
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ACO Newsstand 11/29/2019

Featured Articles:

  • FLAACOS 2019 Panel: Q&A Session About Five ACO Value-Based Strategies
  • MSSP Participation Following Recent Rule Changes: What Does It Tell Us?
  • 3 Underfunded Areas Essential To The Success of Value-Based Care
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ACO Newsstand 11/22/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Leveraging Advanced Practice Practitioners for Team-Based Care
  • New CHIME Report Indicates Slow Movement to Alternative Payment Models
  • MedPAC throws cold water on glowing ACO reports
  • Accountable care organizations results prove the future is now for value-based care
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ACO Newsstand 11/15/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Overcoming Obstacles to Shared Savings in a Multi-EHR ACO Consortium
  • Treat ACOs And MA Plans Equally? By All Means
  • How To Manage Your Health Care Costs – Beyond Just Coverage Costs And Gaps
  • How to deliver value-based care and eliminate waste – Frontline insights from Baylor Scott & White Health & Northeast Georgia Health System
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ACO Newsstand 11/8/2019

Featured Articles:

  • ASC involvement in ACO, joint venture models: 3 findings
  • ACOs linked to consolidation of physician practices, study finds
  • Implementing a Comprehensive Upstream Strategy for ACEs and Trauma
  • CMS Headlines: ACOs Generate Savings, but Is It Enough?
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ACO Newsstand 10/24/2019

Featured Articles:

  • Physician-Led Accountable Care Organizations Outperform Hospital-Led Counterparts
  • Spread of ACOs And Value-Based Payment Models In 2019: Gauging the Impact of Pathways to Success
  • 3 Reforms Aim to Reduce Administrative Burden of Value-Based Care
  • The Hedge Bet For Risk Is Patient Experience
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ACO Newsstand 10/18/2019

Featured Articles:

  • How Physicians Can Navigate To Get Better Value From Specialty Services
  • Physician-led ACOs generated almost 7 times more savings than hospital-led ACOs: Avalere
  • Trends in Value-Based Care
  • Advocate Aurora Invests in People, Infrastructure for ACO Success
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ACO Newsstand 10/11/2019

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