RECORDED WEBINAR: The red and green flags of value-based care contracts: Uncovering key components and avoiding pitfalls for success

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 Download Slides Value-based care aims to shift the focus from the quantity of services provided to the quality and outcomes of patient care. While the concept is simple, value-based care contracts are more complicated. In this webinar, we’ll review the key components of value-based care contracts and explore the pitfalls you’ll want to avoid…

A Social ACO For Medicaid Managed Care

Garrett Schmitt

Numerous studies have shown that the failure to address individuals’ housing, food, transportation, and other health-related social needs (HRSNs) can result in poorer health outcomes and increased health care costs. Elizabeth Bradley and colleagues have published several empirical research studies and a book illustrating that the underinvestment in social services relative to health care, at…

FLASH INTERVIEW – Lucerna Health – 2023

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 Discover Lucerna Health – Your path to making value-based care (VBC) work for better health and better business results! Lucerna’s innovative healthcare technology and deep industry expertise enable them to help you achieve your growth, health outcomes, and revenue goals with their proven playbook. Lucerna believes that payer-provider collaboration and consumer-focused healthcare are essential…

RECORDED WEBINAR: Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Value-Based Care: How ambulatory cardiac monitoring improves outcomes while reducing costs

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 Download Slides The economic and clinical burden of cardiac arrhythmias in the U.S. is immense. Irregular heart rhythms like AFib are becoming alarmingly common, and are expected to grow in the coming years. Those with AFib are at 3x greater risk of developing heart failure, and 5x greater risk of stroke. These not only…

Payer Insights Program Highlights How Payers and Tech Partners Are Thinking About AI, Health Equity, and the Consumer Experience

Garrett Schmitt

Health insurers, self-insured employers, and government plans wield significant power in the U.S. healthcare landscape. Their decisions on reimbursement, technology adoption choices, and how they communicate with members reverberate across the healthcare ecosystem. In order to gain more members and simply maintain their business, they will need to take on more risk and make themselves…

Take the anxiety out of end-of-year, value-based care gap closure

Garrett Schmitt

The end of each calendar year brings with it an atmosphere of heightened scrutiny for risk-bearing health care organizations. These organizations are in a race against time to close risk and quality gaps to maximize their performance and reimbursements in value-based care (VBC). The upcoming Healthcare Quality Week is a timely reminder for organizations to…

Main Street Health Rakes In $315M to Scale Value-Based Care in Rural America

Garrett Schmitt

Over the past few years, there’s been a notable surge in investment dollars directed towards companies specializing in value-based care. Investment in companies that enable value-based care increased more than 400% between 2019 and 2021, according to a McKinsey analysis. This investment trend has only continued in 2022 and 2023. On Sunday, a value-based care…

CommonSpirit Health sees big potential in new value-based care platform

Garrett Schmitt

With 145 hospitals and more than 2,200 care sites in 24 states, CommonSpirit Health serves patients with a wide variety of needs, from big cities to remote rural communities. Now, CommonSpirit says a common platform is going to accelerate the move to value-based care. CommonSpirit recently announced the launch of its Population Health Services Organization,…