RECORDED WEBINAR: Maximizing Healthcare Efficiency: How Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring Saved a Physician-owned Practice $1.4 Million

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 Download Slides Provider organizations seeking to reduce cost of care and improve quality must shift to proactive and preventative care delivery models. Mankato Clinic’s leaders will describe how they deployed Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring to engage thousands of patients across chronic and mental health conditions and catch patients before conditions exacerbated. With better patient…

Moving beyond financial incentives to engage specialists in ACOs

Garrett Schmitt

Accountable Care Organizations are struggling to find specialists to improve value-based care, although it is a top priority Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Meanwhile, ACOs face considerable challenges in effectively engaging specialists, according to a recent study from the Institute for Accountable Care in the American Journal of Managed Care. The predominant influence of…

CMS to Test Mandatory 5-Year Episode-Based Alternative Payment Model

Garrett Schmitt

People with Traditional Medicare who undergo surgery may experience fragmented care, which can lead to complications and prolonged recoveries.  To address this issue, and based on lessons learned from previous episode-based payment models, the CMS Innovation Center has proposed a new mandatory 5-year, episode-based alternative payment model that would launch in 2026. The mandatory Transforming…

ACOs led by independent physicians save Medicare ‘substantially’ more money, CBO says

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Dive Brief: Accountable care organizations led by independent physicians save Medicare more money than other types of ACOs, according to a new Congressional Budget Office review of existing research. Independent physician-led ACOs have clear financial incentives to reduce hospital care to lower spending, while hospital-led ACOs — which earn more revenue when patients are admitted…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Your ACO Guide to Targeting Costs with Data-Driven Strategies: Best Strategies for ACO Cost Control with Quality plus Claims Data

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 Download Slides ACOs have struggled with lowering costs, and having the data to use smart strategies. Examine your options and possible data strategies for targeting a key area of cost avoidance: avoidable utilization and other expenses. In this webinar we’ll review the types of data that ACOs have available to them for targeting avoidable costs, and which…

Best practices, legislative priorities and SNFs: 4 key takeaways from the NAACOS spring conference

Garrett Schmitt

The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) hosted a spring conference last week, with sessions on post-acute care, fraud, implementation best practices, health equity and legislative priorities. CMS officials, industry executives and independent experts gave their thoughts on where the industry is headed and where improvements are needed in the accountable care world. Here are four…

AHIP, AMA, NAACOS Release Playbook for Value-Based Care

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As the healthcare industry works to move away from the fee-for-service system, three healthcare stakeholders have teamed up to release a playbook that details the best practices for value-based arrangements. The three organizations are AHIP, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS). AHIP represents health insurers, while the AMA represents…

CVS creating new ACO in South Carolina through REACH program

Garrett Schmitt

CVS Accountable Care and inVio Health Network, a collection of more than 5,600 providers in South Carolina, are partnering to improve care outcomes for 60,000 Medicare beneficiaries. The two partners will create a new accountable care organization under the ACO REACH program. CVS will provide the resources and analytical know-how necessary to scale inVio, the…

Understanding the ACO Opportunity For Hospices

Garrett Schmitt

Though the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in is going away at the end of this year, those operators still have a role to play in value-based care. The carve-in, formally known as the hospice component of the value-based insurance design model (VBID), will expire on Dec. 31. The program was designed to test hospice coverage through…