RECORDED WEBINAR: Building a Digital Workforce for Rural & Critical Access Hospitals

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 Download Slides How Predictive Prevention Can Help CAHs Extend Care, Reduce Burnout, and Improve Value-Based Performance Rural hospitals face growing pressure from staffing shortages, chronic disease, and rising value-based care demands. This webinar explores how predictive prevention, automation, and continuous patient engagement can help Critical Access Hospitals extend care beyond their walls, reduce avoidable…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Understanding SDS Risk Adjustment and Why the Window for Health Plan Action Is Now

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 Download Slides In this 2026 measurement year, CMS’s sociodemographic status (SDS) risk adjustment is changing how medication adherence is measured, who you need to focus on, and why it matters more than ever. One in eight Medicare beneficiaries qualifies through disability rather than age, and this population underperforms across all three adherence measures by…

Single-Specialty Nephrology Networks: A Distinct Advantage in Value-Based | VBCEH Exclusive

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Nephrology occupies a uniquely strategic position in value-based care. Few specialties sit so directly at the intersection of clinical complexity, rising utilization, and outsized healthcare spend. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) are among the most resource-intensive conditions in Medicare, making kidney care one of the clearest opportunities for specialty-driven value creation….

Why value-based care and quality go hand in hand

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When I think about what defines high-quality health care, I don’t start with a single visit or a specific service. I start with a broad view of the full care experience: how care is delivered over time, across settings and among care teams. High-quality care is built through coordination, prevention and a deep understanding of…

Flawed Benchmark Policy Taxes Accountable Care’s Most Successful Providers

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Medicare’s unprecedented and unpredictable spending growth in recent years is penalizing clinicians who have been most effective at slowing cost growth and improving care. The Accountable Care Prospective Trend (ACPT) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) could cost accountable care clinicians more than $700 million in lost shared savings for care delivered in 2025….

Expanding Medicare’s joint replacement model: Considerations for healthcare providers regarding the new CJR-X Model | Milliman MedInsight

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For nearly all acute care hospitals in the United States, a new mandatory payment model is on the horizon. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Expanded (CJR-X) Model, a mandatory, nationwide, episode-based payment model for lower extremity joint replacements (LEJRs) in Medicare fee-for-service (FFS). If…

RECORDED WEBINAR: CJR-X Is Coming: The Proposed National Mandatory Expansion of CJR

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 Download Slides In the FY 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Prospective Payment System (LTCH) Proposed Rule, CMS introduced CJR Expanded (CJR-X): a proposed nationwide, mandatory bundle payment model that would place every eligible acute care hospital at financial risk for 90-day lower extremity joint replacement (LEJR) episodes — with no…

How Nursing Home Providers Can Make Sense of CMS’ Value-Based Care ‘Alphabet Soup’

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The “alphabet soup” of new value-based care models from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can be confusing and overwhelming for nursing home operators, but there are two models that should be on every provider’s menu: the Long-Term Enhanced ACO Design (LEAD) model and Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM). Brian Fuller, managing director…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Beyond TXAACOs: What Healthcare’s Leading Voices Are Saying About the Future of Value-Based Care

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 Download Slides TXAACOs 2026 brought together some of the nation’s leading minds in accountable care, healthcare innovation, population health, and value-based care. While attendees gained valuable insights from the conference sessions, many of the most important conversations happened between presentations, over dinner, in networking events, and in discussions among industry leaders throughout the week….

RECORDED WEBINAR: Jump starting value by driving “Time to Goal” with value-based panels

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 Download Slides Optimizing performance of value-based clinicians and addressing gaps in chronic care pathways are two major obstacles to helping patients achieve the clinical goals that improve outcomes and reduce utilization costs.  Using an AI native-services solutions across the conditions that drive spend in a value-based organization, Altitude partners are effectively improving clinician performance…