Roughly 40% of U.S. healthcare payments were tied to alternative payment models (APMs) last year, with Medicare Advantage claims representing the largest amount, a new survey found. The survey, published Wednesday by the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network, showed that more work needs to be done as most healthcare payments were still tied…
Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. It’s clear the future of reimbursement will at minimum include a heaping portion of providers being paid for value as opposed to volume. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on…
Dr. Rodger Israel, Chief Medical Officer of WakeMed Key Community Care, joins Proficient Health to discuss current and future trends of technology and quality. It’s no surprise that technology is a driver to improve communication and patient care but there is often a strong resistance. Dr. Israel will discuss top priorities, trends, data and analytics,…
After years of uneven adoption, value-based care (VBC) is gaining momentum as providers and payers seek to improve patient outcomes while gaining control of runaway healthcare spending in the U.S. An overwhelming 94% of health system executives expect value-based contracts to continue growing in coming years. Making VBC work, however, requires the ability of healthcare…
Value-based care is one of the key drivers of health system efforts to improve patient access to medical services, according to survey research from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM). The Pittsburgh-based CCM’s “Top of Mind for Top Health Systems 2022” research report examines patient access solutions and strategies being considered and deployed at health…
Healthcare payers, providers, and other value-based care organizations face challenging questions as they work to improve treatment performance and cost. How healthy are patient cohorts and panels in a particular market? What treatments are the most effective for the most prevalent conditions in a population? How widespread are preventative screenings and vaccinations? Answering these questions…
The shift to value-based care (VBC) in the U.S. has been slow in coming, in large part because providers have continued to cling to the traditional “fee for service” (FFS) healthcare model that historically has worked well for them (if not always for the patient). Plus, it’s how they’ve always done business. But the inefficiencies…
I started 2021 with a new job and a new perspective to add my variety of experiences in the population health community as I joined Olio as the Vice President of Sales. For those not familiar with Olio, it is a software solution that makes it simple for hospital systems, physicians and payers to actively…
ABSTRACT Objectives: Since 2019, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has allowed accountable care organizations (ACOs) to choose either retrospectively or prospectively attributed ACO populations. To understand how ACOs’ choice of attribution method affects incentives for care among seriously ill Medicare beneficiaries, this study compares beneficiary characteristics and Medicare per capita expenditures between prospective and…
Limited funding and lack of reimbursement from payers are the top hurdles to patient engagement technologies, analytics and precision medicine, according to a survey of chief information officers. Healthcare providers plan to ramp up investments in telemedicine, patient portals and data aggregation capabilities but continue to struggle with how to fund these investments, a survey report from…