“How can we advance health equity in cardiovascular care?” asked David Thompson, PhD, professor of nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, on day 2 of the 2024 European Society of Cardiology Congress. To even know where to begin, it’s important to first understand that health equity and health equality are…
Physicians working with value-based payment models are being graded on an average of 57 different quality measures a year, according to a new study. The quality measures were included in commercial and government insurance plans, with Medicare leading the number, with 15.04 quality measures per contract in 2022, according to “Value-Based Contracting in Clinical Care,”…
I was the editor of a healthcare business magazine for 11 years. I was in charge of hiring and firing our editorial staff of reporters, editors and designers. My performance measures for new hires were pretty simple: get to work on time, work hard, do a good job, don’t cause any trouble and leave on…
A research article by a team of researchers has found that the development of accountable care organizations—particularly of the ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has not in itself advanced the development of work on the social determinants of health (SDOH). That’s the conclusion of an article published in the July issue…
The COVID pandemic that overwhelmed our healthcare industry and laid bare the vulnerability of our systems is relatively well contained today. Now that we’ve moved beyond crisis mode, where is U.S. healthcare headed as a system? My hope is that we will return our attention to the health system’s transition from fee-for-service to value-based care…
According to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States has made little progress in the last twenty years in closing gaps that remain in healthcare equity. Racial and ethnic lines continue to be drawn in the quality and availability of care in this country, despite the United…
Download Slides ACO’s face many challenges but pacing with the annual changes proposed by CMS Quality Initiatives doesn’t need to be burdensome. During this 1-hour session, MRO’s experts highlight 4 key components of the proposed CMS enhancements to the Medicare Shared Savings program (MSSP) and provides guidance for MSSP ACOs to meet the new…
Download Slides Discover how AI retinal scans are revolutionizing the early detection and management of various systemic diseases. Featuring firsthand accounts from professionals in the field, this session will cover real-world applications, challenges, and successes in integrating AI retinal screening into primary care practices to enhance healthcare processes. Learn how retina screening with AI…
Data are essential to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMS Innovation Center’s) mission to develop and test innovative health care payment and service delivery models. Accurate and comprehensive data can support model operations, including payment, enable the evaluation of model performance, and can be an important…
Changes announced to ACO REACH model for 2025 and 2026 will disincentivize providers from achieving meaningful improvements across the quintuple aim, according to Gary Jacobs, executive director at VillageMD’s Center for Public Policy. The VillageMD accountable care organization is a primary care physician-led ACO that has been successful in the full risk and value-based ACO…