Increasingly, healthcare organizations are starting to design social determinants of health screening processes. Coming as a response to value-based care trends, social determinants of health screenings help clinicians and organization leaders understand the social issues affecting the health and wellness of the organization’s unique patient population. Those insights can inform the community health partnerships the…
Download Slides In today’s value-based care landscape, growth and success may appear different for each organization. Market conditions, resources and budgets, company goals – each of these play a role in determining the go-to-market strategy. To truly understand and define these areas, you need to first start by looking at your performance insights. …
By 2025, accountable care organizations will be required to do quality reporting via electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). Maria Alexander, senior director of population health at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, recently spoke about the pros and cons of reporting via eCQMs during the voluntary transition period between now and then. The Centers…
In recent years, momentum among Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to improve health equity has increased. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ announcement of the redesigned ACO REACH contracting model to improve health equity will only accelerate this momentum. In this blog, we will help ACOs and healthcare payers understand how healthcare analytics can be used to identify health equity challenges…
Championed by government entities like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health & Human Services, value-based care is here to stay. Hospitals are increasingly participating in value-based programs—such as the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Bundled Payments for Care Improvement—in an effort to improve care delivery and patient outcomes while…
What level of integration makes for a successful post-acute care network? Antonio Rodriguez, M.D., medical director of the continuing care network for UNC Health Alliance in North Carolina, recently described a decision-making framework for healthcare systems that are taking their first steps in building post-acute care networks. Rodriguez, a family medicine physician, was speaking at…
As the medical industry continues to understand how social determinants of health impact overall wellness, the topics of environment and climate change have come into view. SDOH specifically refer to the environments in which individuals live, work, and play. Currently, most stakeholders are zooming in on factors like houselessness or food insecurity as leading SDOH…
In the opening session of this year’s National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) Spring Conference, NAACOS president and CEO Clif Gaus, ScD, moderated a discussion with Rob Fields, MD, MHA, chief population health officer at Mount Sinai Health System, and Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, deputy administrator and director, Center for Medicare,, CMS. Throughout the session,…
Value-based payment programs tie healthcare reimbursement rates to quality care by offering providers incentive payments to meet specified quality measures during and after healthcare delivery. As the industry moves away from fee-for-service models and toward value-based care models, CMS has implemented several programs to improve patient care, advance population health, and lower healthcare costs. These value-based…
The Biden administration wants to change how benchmark payments to accountable care organizations are calculated to make it easier for providers in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to qualify for savings. Leaders in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outlined several changes they are pursuing to get more providers involved in value-based…