This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023…
Patient data collection is critical in how the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is developing health equity quality measures for hospices in value-based payment. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in 2022 announced a “strategy refresh” that included a renewed focus on health care equity in payment model design. Among…
Paralleling many conversations across the current socio-political landscape, life sciences have been striving to fix the lack of diversity in clinical trials. This has taken a few different angles ranging from access to representative results. While these conversations have been ongoing, two recent updates prompted more urgent action: Medicaid became responsible for the costs of…
Tackling value-based care is crucial with the upcoming 2030 mandate by CMS. But it can be challenging for providers to deliver equitable care while hitting value-based care goals. Still, providers don’t have much of a choice since value-based care is replacing fee-for-service as the method of reimbursement in the industry. To get a look at…
Large retailers – like CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) – that have invested heavily in home-based care aren’t just hoping for a boon from those capabilities. They’re banking on it. CVS Health has reworked its business model to capitalize off of the shift from fee for service to value-based payment…
Healthcare companies are ramping up health equity efforts. However, many are still missing the mark, one executive recently said. “When we talk about health inequity, when we talk about social determinants of health, that’s been reduced to this checklist of unmet social needs,” said Dr. Shreya Kangovi, executive director of the Penn Center for Community…
Telehealth provides healthcare without an in-person visit by utilizing technology (HHS, 2023). Patients can talk to their provider over the phone, via video chat, or through secure messaging. Telehealth can also involve remote monitoring of the patient’s vital signs, such as blood pressure and heart rate, via devices worn by the patient. Then the technology…
Although reports of physician burnout multiplied during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has always been a problem in health care. According to a study from the Mayo Clinic, the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated existing problems in the health care delivery system and took a toll on the U.S. physician workforce. This added strain impacted the quality…
Can engaging patients with social determinants of health (SDOH) and chronic conditions, benefit from engaging with providers and others, in the context of care delivery by accountable care organizations (ACOs) and similar entities? That’s the question that a team of healthcare policy researchers has asked. The results of their research have just been published online…
There has been a newfound effort to highlight and address the disparity in health outcomes for patients who belong to one or more marginalized communities. Opportunities for health and wellness are dictated by social, economic, environmental, and systemic factors, not by factors that are inherently genetic or physiologic. This means that the color of one’s…